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Denoising of Quality Scores for Boosted Inference and Reduced Storage.

Idoia Ochoa1, Mikel Hernaez1, Rachel Goldfeder2

  • 1Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305.

Proceedings. Data Compression Conference
|November 4, 2017
PubMed
Summary

This study introduces a novel denoising method for sequencing quality scores, improving variant calling accuracy and enabling significant data compression. The denoised scores enhance genetic variant identification for medical applications.

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Area of Science:

  • Genomics
  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational Biology

Background:

  • Advances in sequencing technology generate vast amounts of data, including nucleotide sequences and quality scores.
  • Quality scores are crucial for variant calling but are noisy and difficult to compress, increasing storage costs.
  • Reducing noise in quality scores has been underexplored, yet is vital for accurate genetic variant identification.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose and evaluate a denoising scheme for sequencing quality scores.
  • To demonstrate improved variant calling accuracy using denoised quality scores.
  • To show that denoising quality scores can achieve significant data compression.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a novel denoising algorithm for sequencing quality scores.
  • Evaluation of the denoised quality scores in the context of variant calling.
  • Assessment of the compression achievable with denoised quality scores.

Main Results:

  • The proposed denoising scheme effectively reduces noise in quality scores.
  • Replacing original quality scores with denoised ones leads to more accurate variant calling.
  • Denoising results in lower entropy, enabling significant compression of quality score data.

Conclusions:

  • Denoising quality scores is a promising approach to improve variant calling accuracy and data storage efficiency.
  • The developed method provides a baseline for future research in quality score denoising.
  • Accurate genetic variant identification is enhanced through improved quality score processing.