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Detecting Somatic Genetic Alterations in Tumor Specimens by Exon Capture and Massively Parallel Sequencing
Published on: October 18, 2013
MVSC: A Multi-variation Simulator of Cancer Genome
Ning Li1, Jialiang Yang2, Wen Zhu2,3
1School of Information and Electronic Engineering, Wuzhou University, Wuzhou, China.
Background:
Many forms of variations exist in the genome, which are the main causes of individual phenotypic differences. The detection of variants, especially those located in the tumor genome, still faces many challenges due to the complexity of the genome structure. Thus, the performance assessment of variation detection tools using next-generation sequencing platforms is urgently needed.
Method:
We have created a software package called the Multi-Variation Simulator of Cancer genomes (MVSC) to simulate common genomic variants, including single nucleotide polymorphisms, small insertion and deletion polymorphisms, and structural variations (SVs), which are analogous to human somatically acquired variations. Three sets of variations embedded in genomic sequences in different periods were dynamically and sequentially simulated one by one.
Results:
In cancer genome simulation, complex SVs are important because this type of variation is characteristic of the tumor genome structure. Overlapping variations of different sizes can also coexist in the same genome regions, adding to the complexity of cancer genome architecture. Our results show that MVSC can efficiently simulate a variety of genomic variants that cannot be simulated by existing software packages.
Conclusion:
The MVSC-simulated variants can be used to assess the performance of existing tools designed to detect SVs in next-generation sequencing data, and we also find that MVSC is memory and time-efficient compared with similar software packages.
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