spolTools is a collection of online browser programs designed to manipulate and analyse spoligotype data of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex.

Goals of SpolTools

To consolidate and organise data from spoligotyping as a readily accessible resource for researchers

To provide corresponding analysis tools on spoligotype data

To provide users a forum for contribution of their own spoligotype data

To serve as a model for the presentation of spoligotype data in a user-friendly format

Download the spolTools user guide (PDF) in this link.

References

When using the tools in this site for publication, please cite the following papers:

spolTools
Tang C, Reyes JF, Luciani F, Francis AR, and Tanaka MM. spolTools: online utilities for analyzing spoligotypes of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. Bioinformatics. 2008 Oct 15;24(20):2414-5. Epub 2008 Aug 18. [PubMed]

Spoligoforests
Reyes JF, Francis AR, and Tanaka MM. Models of deletion for visualizing bacterial variation: an application to tuberculosis spoligotypes. (To appear.)

DESTUS
Tanaka MM and Francis AR. Detecting emerging strains of tuberculosis by using spoligotypes. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2006 Oct 10;103(41):15266-71. Epub 2006 Oct 2. [PubMed]

People of SpolTools

spolTools was designed by Chaka Tang, Josephine Reyes, Fabio Luciani, Andrew Francis, and Mark Tanaka. It was developed for web use by Chaka Tang and Josephine Reyes.

Links

SITVIT
MIRU-VNTRplus
CRISPRdb
spolDB