title: AKT: ancestry and kinship toolkit.
abstract: Ancestry and Kinship Toolkit (AKT) is a statistical genetics tool for analysing large cohorts of whole-genome sequenced samples. It can rapidly detect related samples, characterize sample ancestry, calculate correlation between variants, check Mendel consistency and perform data clustering. AKT brings together the functionality of many state-of-the-art methods, with a focus on speed and a unified interface. We believe it will be an invaluable tool for the curation of large WGS datasets.
  
  
  
  The source code is available at https://illumina.github.io/akt CONTACTS: joconnell@illumina.com or rudy.d.arthur@gmail.comSupplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
authors.affiliation: Illumina Cambridge Ltd., Chesterford Research Park, Little Chesterford, Essex CB10 1XL, UK.
authors.forename: Rudy
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Arthur
authors.affiliation: Illumina Cambridge Ltd., Chesterford Research Park, Little Chesterford, Essex CB10 1XL, UK.
authors.forename: Ole
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Schulz-Trieglaff
authors.affiliation: Illumina Cambridge Ltd., Chesterford Research Park, Little Chesterford, Essex CB10 1XL, UK.
authors.forename: Anthony J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Cox
authors.affiliation: Illumina Cambridge Ltd., Chesterford Research Park, Little Chesterford, Essex CB10 1XL, UK.
authors.forename: Jared
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: O'Connell
mesh_terms: D016000:Cluster Analysis; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D015894:Genome, Human; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010375:Pedigree; D010802:Phylogeny; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software