Kaptive - How novel searches within bacterial genomic data are presented and hosted on R@CMon
Dr. Kelly Wyres is a research fellow in the Holt Lab. Kelly first approached the Research Cloud at Monash team in 2019. She sought assistance to migrate their bioinformatics web application – Kaptive to Monash infrastructure. Kaptive is a user-friendly tool for finding known loci within one or more pre-assembled genomes, specifically for the identification of Klebsiella surface polysaccharide loci. It presents these results in a novel and intuitive web interface, helping the user to rapidly gain confidence in locus matches. Kaptive has been developed and currently maintained by Kelly Wyres, Ryan Wick and Kathryn Holt at Monash University. It also uses bacterial reference databases that are carefully curated by Kelly Wyres and Johanna Kenyon from Queensland University of Technology.