Quality-based variant detection

The quality-based variant detection in Biomedical Genomics Workbench is based on the Neighborhood Quality Standard (NQS) algorithm of [Altshuler et al., 2000] (also see [Brockman et al., 2008] for more information). Using a combination of quality filters and user-specified thresholds for coverage and frequency, this tool finds all variants that are covered by aligned reads.

To run the variant detection:

        Toolbox | Legacy Tools (Image legacy_tools) | Quality-based Variant Detection (legacy) (Image snp_detection_legacy_overlay_16_n_p)

This opens a dialog where you can select mapping results (Image contig)/ (Image multicontig)/ (Image read_track_16_n_p) or RNA-Seq analysis results (Image rnaseq).

Clicking Next will display the dialog shown in figure 35.2

Image SNP_detection_step2
Figure 35.2: Quality filtering.



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