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Detection of Copy Number Alterations Using Single Cell Sequencing
Published on: February 17, 2017
CovCopCan: An efficient tool to detect Copy Number Variation from amplicon sequencing data in inherited diseases and
Paco Derouault1, Jasmine Chauzeix2,3, David Rizzo2,3
1CHU Limoges, UF de Bioinformatique, Limoges France.
Abstract:
Molecular diagnosis is an essential step of patient care. An increasing number of Copy Number Variations (CNVs) have been identified that are involved in inherited and somatic diseases. However, there are few existing tools to identify them among amplicon sequencing data generated by Next Generation Sequencing (NGS). We present here a new tool, CovCopCan, that allows the rapid and easy detection of CNVs in inherited diseases, as well as somatic data of patients with cancer, even with a low ratio of cancer cells to healthy cells. This tool could be very useful for molecular geneticists to rapidly identify CNVs in an interactive and user-friendly way.

