Random SNPs simulation?

Question

[thomasbersez]

Hi everyone,

For an allele mining project I need to generate in silico NGS data. I have chosen to use Grinder to do so. I would like to add randomly generated SNPs to my reference genome, is any software available to do that ?

Thanks for help!

Answer 1

[jean.elbers]

You could try mutate.sh from BBTools/BBMap. mutate.sh can also produce a VCF file of the SNPs added. You can also generate random Illumina reads with the BBTool randomreads.sh https://sourceforge.net/projects/bbmap/

Answer 2

[Corentin]

Hi, you can also try Simulome, it is quite customisable.

https://github.com/price0416/Simulome

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5870732/