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. 2015 Jul 1;31(13):2084-90.
doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv086. Epub 2015 Feb 16.

RAPTR-SV: a hybrid method for the detection of structural variants

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RAPTR-SV: a hybrid method for the detection of structural variants

Derek M Bickhart et al. Bioinformatics. .
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Abstract

Motivation: Identification of structural variants (SVs) in sequence data results in a large number of false positive calls using existing software, which overburdens subsequent validation.

Results: Simulations using RAPTR-SV and other, similar algorithms for SV detection revealed that RAPTR-SV had superior sensitivity and precision, as it recovered 66.4% of simulated tandem duplications with a precision of 99.2%. When compared with calls made by Delly and LUMPY on available datasets from the 1000 genomes project, RAPTR-SV showed superior sensitivity for tandem duplications, as it identified 2-fold more duplications than Delly, while making ∼85% fewer duplication predictions.

Availability and implementation: RAPTR-SV is written in Java and uses new features in the collections framework in the latest release of the Java version 8 language specifications. A compiled version of the software, instructions for usage and test results files are available on the GitHub repository page: https://github.com/njdbickhart/RAPTR-SV.

Contact: derek.bickhart@ars.usda.gov.

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