Systematic Noise Creation Options

The following options are available to create systematic noise BED files from normal VCF files.

Name

Description

Command Line Equivalent

Value

vc-systematic-noise-raw-input-list

List of VCFs to be used. One VCF per line.

--vc-systematic-noise-raw-input-list

 

vc-systematic-noise-germline-vaf-threshold

Minimal variant allele frequency to remove potential germlines from the systematic noise file building. If not specified, all variants are used.

--vc-systematic-noise-germline-vaf-threshold

0–1

vc-systematic-noise-use-germline-tag

Whether to use DRAGEN internal germline tagging to remove potential germlines. Mutually exclusive with --vc-systematic-noise-germline-vaf-threshold .

--vc-systematic-noise-use-germline-tag

true/false

vc-systematic-noise-method

Method to calculate the systematic noise level across samples.

--vc-systematic-noise-method

mean / max / aggregate