Resolve the genomic basis of bacterial phase variation.

Analyze paired-end WGS from a clonal bacterial isolate to identify candidate phase-variable loci.

Paired-end isolate WGSReference-guided analysisReproducible workflow
Illustration of repeat-length variation and alternate bacterial states

Analyze a clonal isolate against bacterial reference candidates

Primary reference genome set plus up to four alternatives; each set may include a chromosome and multiple plasmids

Primary referencechromosome + plasmids
Iterative mappingread-supported alignment
Phase-variation signalsSSR variation · inversions

Read QC & alignment

Adapter and quality trimming with paired-end read diagnostics.

Reference-guided refinement

Iterative mapping across candidate chromosome–plasmid reference sets.

Phase-variable loci

Evidence for SSR tract variation, inversions and structural rearrangements.

Recent analyses

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Phase-variable loci

77Phase-variable loci43Annotated to genes
CategoryEstimated quasi-clonal population frequencyLocationGene annotation
Putative breakpoint junction5.26%CP026802.1:89834Unannotated
Inversion8.77%CP026802.1:226705Annotated gene
InsertionNACP026802.1:373342Annotated gene

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