Abstract
Mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit-variable number tandem repeat (MIRU-VNTR) typing is widely used to genotype Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in epidemiological studies for tracking tuberculosis transmission. Recent long-read sequencing technologies from Pacific Biosciences and Oxford Nanopore Technologies can produce reads that are long enough to cover the entire repeat regions in each MIRU-VNTR locus which was previously not possible using the short reads from Illumina high-throughput sequencing technologies. We thus developed MIRUReader for MIRU-VNTR typing directly from long sequence reads. Source code and documentation for MIRUReader program is freely available at https://github.com/phglab/MIRUReader. Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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