Table 1. Tool list for quality control processes

Tools Function Reference
GEMMA Application of linear mixed models and related models to GWAS [4]
PLINK Run association analyses and perform QC and regression steps [5]
FastQC Quality control checks on raw sequence data [9]
Trimmomatic Trim and crop FASTQ data [10]
Cutadapt finds and removes adapter sequences, primers, poly-A tails [11]
BWA-MEM produce multiple primary alignments for different part of a query sequence [12]
Bowtie2 aligning sequencing reads to long reference sequences [13]
Samtools Manipulate alignments in the SAM, BAM, and CRAM formats [14]
GATK Variant calling using sequencing data [15]
VCFtools Summarize, filter out, convert data into other file formats [16]
FreeBayes Bayesian genetic variant detector designed to fine SNPs [17]
SnpEff Annotation on genetic variants and predicts their effects on genes [18]
ANNOVAR Generate gene-based annotation [19]
IGV Visualization tool to simultaneously integrate and anlyze multiple types of genomic data [20]
GenomeStudio Normalize, cluster, and call genotypes [25]
SVS Perform analyses and visualizations on genomic and phenotypic data [33]
BEAGLE Genotype calling, phasing, and genotype imputation [39]
Fimpute Haplotype estimation or phasing and genotype imputation [40]
Impute2 Genotype imputation and haplotype phasing [47]
Minimac performs imputation with pre-phased haplotypes [48]