Gencore: an efficient tool to generate consensus reads for error suppressing and duplicate removing of NGS data

Comparing to the conventional tools like Picard and SAMtools, gencore greatly reduces the output data's mapping mismatches, which are mostly caused by errors. Comparing to some new tools like UMI-Reducer and UMI-tools, gencore runs much faster, uses less memory, generates better consensus reads and provides simpler interfaces. To our best knowledge, gencore is the only duplicate removing tool that generates both informative HTML and JSON reports. This tool is available at: https://github.com/OpenGene/gencore.