CAPHEINE, or everything and the kitchen sink: a workflow for automating selection analyses using HyPhy

Here we present CAPHEINE, a computational workflow that starts with a set of unaligned pathogen sequences and a reference genome and performs a comprehensive exploratory evolutionary analysis of the input data. CAPHEINE pairs nicely with studies of site-level selection dynamics, gene-level positive selection, and lineage-specific shifts in selective pressure. Our workflow is portable across Mac OS, Windows, and Linux, allowing researchers to focus on results. CAPHEINE is freely available at https://github.com/veg/CAPHEINE, along with a set of usage instructions.

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bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
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2026-02-24
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https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.02.23.707482
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Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
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CAPHEINE, or everything and the kitchen sink: a workflow for automating selection analyses using HyPhy

Danielle Callan, Sergei L Kosakovsky Pond, Hannah Elaine Verdonk
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
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CAPHEINE, or everything and the kitchen sink: a workflow for automating selection analyses using HyPhy

Danielle Callan, Sergei L Kosakovsky Pond, Hannah Elaine Verdonk
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Here we present CAPHEINE, a computational workflow that starts with a set of unaligned pathogen sequences and a reference genome and performs a comprehensive exploratory evolutionary analysis of the input data. CAPHEINE pairs nicely with studies of site-level selection dynamics, gene-level positive selection, and lineage-specific shifts in selective pressure. Our workflow is portable across Mac OS, Windows, and Linux, allowing researchers to focus on results. CAPHEINE is freely available at https://github.com/veg/CAPHEINE, along with a set of usage instructions.

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Evolutionary Genomics (United States) (US), Temple University (US)
Openalex Percentile: Top 43%
Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
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