The InDel variants track (InDel):
The Indel variants track contains a row for each of the called insertions or deletions that fulfills the requirements for being of a 'variant' type (see section 26.9.3 for a description of the variant types "Insertion" and "Deletion"). These are the small to medium sized insertions and deletions (up to 200 bp in length) for which the algorithm was able to identify the allele sequence (that is, the exact inserted sequence, or the exact deleted sequence). For insertions, the full allele sequence is found from the unaligned ends of mapped reads. For some insertions the length and allele sequence cannot be determined and as these do not fulfill the requirements of a 'variant', they do not qualify for representation in the 'InDel variant' track but instead appear in the Structural Variants track (see below). The information provided for each of the indels in the InDel variant track is the 'Chromosome', 'Region', 'Type', 'Reference', 'Allele', 'Reference Allele', 'Length' and 'Zygosity' columns that are provided for all variants (see section 26.9.1). In addition the following information, which is primarily intended to allow the user to assess the degree of evidence supporting each predicted indel, is provided:- Evidence: The mapping evidence on which the call of the indel was based. This may be either 'Self mapped', 'Paired breakpoint', Cross mapped breakpoint' or 'Tandem duplication' depending of the mapping signature of the unaligned ends of the breakpoint(s) from which the indel was inferred.
- Repeat: The algorithm attempts to identify if the variant sequence contains perfect repeats. This is done by searching the region around the structural variant for perfect repeat sequences. The region searched is 3 times the length of variant around the insertion/deletion point. The maximum repeat length searched for is 10. If a repeat sequence is found, the repeated sequence is given in this column. If not, the column is empty.
- Variant ratio: This column contains the sum of the 'Non perfect mapped' reads for the breakpoints used to infer the indel, divided by the sum of the 'Non perfect mapped' and 'Perfect mapped' reads for the breakpoints used to infer the indel (see section the description above of the breakpoints track). This fraction is intended to give a hint towards the zygosity of the indel. The closer the value to 1, the higher the likelihood that the variant is homozygous.
- # Reads: The total number of reads supporting the breakpoints from which the indel was constructed.
- Sequence complexity: The sequence complexity of the unaligned end of the breakpoint (see section 26.12.5). Indels with higher complexity are typically more reliable than those with low complexity.