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Targeted Next-generation Sequencing and Bioinformatics Pipeline to Evaluate Genetic Determinants of Constitutional Disease
Published on: April 4, 2018
Next generation sequencing has lower sequence coverage and poorer SNP-detection capability in the regulatory regions
Weixin Wang1, Zhi Wei, Tak-Wah Lam
1Department of Biochemistry, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Abstract:
The rapid development of next generation sequencing (NGS) technology provides a new chance to extend the scale and resolution of genomic research. How to efficiently map millions of short reads to the reference genome and how to make accurate SNP calls are two major challenges in taking full advantage of NGS. In this article, we reviewed the current software tools for mapping and SNP calling, and evaluated their performance on samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project. We found that BWA and Bowtie are better than the other alignment tools in comprehensive performance for Illumina platform, while NovoalignCS showed the best overall performance for SOLiD. Furthermore, we showed that next-generation sequencing platform has significantly lower coverage and poorer SNP-calling performance in the CpG islands, promoter and 5'-UTR regions of the genome. NGS experiments targeting for these regions should have higher sequencing depth than the normal genomic region.
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