VCF2Networks: Applying genotype networks to single-nucleotide variants data

A wealth of large-scale genome sequencing projects opens the doors to new approaches to study the relationship between genotype and phenotype. One such opportunity is the possibility to apply genotype networks analysis to population genetics data. Genotype networks are a representation of the set of genotypes associated with a single phenotype, and they allow one to estimate properties such as the robustness of the phenotype to mutations, and the ability of its associated genotypes to evolve new adaptations. So far, though, genotype networks analysis has rarely been applied to population genetics data. To help fill this gap, here we present VCF2Networks, a tool to determine and study genotype network structure from single-nucleotide variant data. © The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.This study has been possible thanks the grant BFU2013-43726-P awarded by Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Spain) and with the support of Secretaria d'Universitats i Recerca del Departament d'Economia i Coneixement de la Generalitat de Catalunya (GRC 2014 SGR 866). GMD was supported by a FPI fellowship BES-2009-017731. AW was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation and by the URPP Evolutionary Biology at the University of Zurich.Peer Reviewe