PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Renato Augusto Corrêa dos Santos AU - Gustavo Henrique Goldman AU - Diego Mauricio Riaño-Pachón TI - ploidyNGS: Visually exploring ploidy with Next Generation Sequencing data AID - 10.1101/086488 DP - 2016 Jan 01 TA - bioRxiv PG - 086488 4099 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/11/08/086488.short 4100 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/11/08/086488.full AB - Summary ploidyNGS is a model-free, open source tool to visualize and explore ploidy levels in a newly sequenced genome, exploiting short read data. We tested ploidyNGS using both simulated and real NGS data of the model yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. ploidyNGS allows the identification of the ploidy level of a newly sequenced genome in a visual way.Availability and implementation ploidyNGS is available under the GNU General Public License (GPL) at https://github.com/diriano/ploidyNGS. ploidyNGS is implemented in Python and R.Contact diego.riano@bioetanol.org.br