Motivation:

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, characterise sample ancestry,

detect IBD segments, 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 data-sets.

Availability:

The source code is available at

https://illumina.github.io/akt