Pirooznia, M., Kramer, M., Parla, J., Goes, F. S., Potash, J. B., McCombie, W. R., Zandi, P. P. (July 2014) Validation and assessment of variant calling pipelines for next-generation sequencing. Human Genomics, 8. ISSN 1473-95421479-7364 eISSN
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Background: The processing and analysis of the large scale data generated by next-generation sequencing (NGS) experiments is challenging and is a burgeoning area of new methods development. Several new bioinformatics tools have been developed for calling sequence variants from NGS data. Here, we validate the variant calling of these tools and compare their relative accuracy to determine which data processing pipeline is optimal. Results: We developed a unified pipeline for processing NGS data that encompasses four modules: mapping, filtering, realignment and recalibration, and variant calling. We processed 130 subjects from an ongoing whole exome sequencing study through this pipeline. To evaluate the accuracy of each module, we conducted a series of comparisons between the single nucleotide variant (SNV) calls from the NGS data and either gold-standard Sanger sequencing on a total of 700 variants or array genotyping data on a total of 9,935 single-nucleotide polymorphisms. A head to head comparison showed that Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK) provided more accurate calls than SAMtools (positive predictive value of 92.55% vs. 80.35%, respectively). Realignment of mapped reads and recalibration of base quality scores before SNV calling proved to be crucial to accurate variant calling. GATK HaplotypeCaller algorithm for variant calling outperformed the UnifiedGenotype algorithm. We also showed a relationship between mapping quality, read depth and allele balance, and SNV call accuracy. However, if best practices are used in data processing, then additional filtering based on these metrics provides little gains and accuracies of >99% are achievable. Conclusions: Our findings will help to determine the best approach for processing NGS data to confidently call variants for downstream analyses. To enable others to implement and replicate our results, all of our codes are freely available at http://metamoodics.org/wes.
| Item Type: | Paper |
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| Subjects: | bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > annotation Investigative techniques and equipment > assays > next generation sequencing bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > annotation > variant calling |
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| Communities: | CSHL Cancer Center Program > Cancer Genetics CSHL labs > McCombie lab Stanley Institute for Cognitive Genomics |
| Depositing User: | Matt Covey |
| Date: | 30 July 2014 |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Sep 2014 16:12 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Nov 2015 20:05 |
| PMCID: | PMC4129436 |
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| URI: | https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/30804 |
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