Somatic Variant Caller
Developed by Illumina, the somatic variant caller identifies variants present at low frequency in DNA samples.
The somatic variant caller identifies variants in three steps:
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Considers each position in the reference genome separately. |
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Counts bases at a given position for aligned reads that overlap the position. |
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Computes a variant score that measures the quality of the call using a Poisson model. |
A candidate variant is filtered under the following conditions:
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The frequency is below the user-specified threshold (default: 5%). |
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The depth is below the user-specified threshold (default: 10). |
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The variant quality is below Q30. |
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Significant strand bias is detected. |
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The variant is an indel occurring in a homopolymer region. |
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The no-call rate is above 0.6. |
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