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  • Genomics

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  • Accurate reconstruction of cancer clonal evolution is crucial for precision medicine.
  • Automated tools for variant clustering and phylogenetic tree reconstruction exist but lack systematic reliability assessments.
  • Identifying aggressive subclones informs targeted cancer therapies.

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  • To systematically evaluate the reliability of automated clonal evolution reconstruction tools.
  • To identify factors limiting the performance of existing reconstruction methods.
  • To provide a benchmark for future algorithm development.

Main Methods:

  • Development of clevRsim, a novel simulator for clonal evolution data, incorporating single-nucleotide variants and copy number variants.
  • Generation of 88 diverse simulated datasets to test reconstruction tools.
  • Systematic performance evaluation of automated tools across various simulated data complexities.

Main Results:

  • High clone numbers significantly impair both variant clustering and tree reconstruction accuracy.
  • Low sequencing coverage and excessive time points degrade clustering performance.
  • Branched independent evolution and overlapping copy number variants with single-nucleotide variants severely hinder accurate tree reconstruction.

Conclusions:

  • Existing automated tools face significant challenges in reconstructing complex cancer clonal evolution.
  • Limitations include high clone burden, low coverage, and complex genomic events like overlapping variants.
  • Development of advanced algorithms is essential to fully leverage clonal evolution analysis for precision oncology.