TABLE 3.

Tools for genotyping STRs through NGS

Tool	Refs	Estimate STR length	Multisample analysis	Suitable for long STRs
lobSTR	Gymrek, Golan, Rosset, & Erlich (2012)	Y	Y	N
RepeatSeq	Highnam et al. (2013)	Y	N	N
HipSTR	Willems et al. (2017)	Y	Y	N
ExpansionHunter	Dolzhenko et al. (2017)	Y	N	Y
exSTRa	Tankard et al. (2018)	N	Y	Y
STRetch	Dashnow et al. (2018)	Y*	Y	Y

Y* (not tested for PCR + or targeted sequencing data) (ref).

Abbreviations: N, no; NGS, next‐generation sequencing; STRs, short tandem repeats; Y, yes.