Detailed comparison of two popular variant calling packages for exome and targeted exon studies

PeerJ

Volumn 2014, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Warden, Charles D ^a   Adamson, Aaron W ^b   Neuhausen, Susan L ^b   Wu, Xiwei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Exome; GATK; Small indel; SNP; Targeted sequencing; Variant calling; VarScan

Indexed keywords

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CHROMOSOME 20; DATA PROCESSING; DNA MICROARRAY; EXOME; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INDEL MUTATION; OVERLAPPING GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 84907705288     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.600     Document Type: Article

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