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SV2: accurate structural variation genotyping and de novo mutation detection from whole genomes
Danny Antaki1,2,3,4, William M Brandler1,2,3, Jonathan Sebat1,2,3
1Beyster Center for Genomics of Psychiatric Diseases.
Motivation:
Structural variation (SV) detection from short-read whole genome sequencing is error prone, presenting significant challenges for population or family-based studies of disease.
Results:
Here, we describe SV2, a machine-learning algorithm for genotyping deletions and duplications from paired-end sequencing data. SV2 can rapidly integrate variant calls from multiple structural variant discovery algorithms into a unified call set with high genotyping accuracy and capability to detect de novo mutations.
Availability And Implementation:
SV2 is freely available on GitHub (https://github.com/dantaki/SV2).
Contact:
jsebat@ucsd.edu.
Supplementary Information:
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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