Vcfdist: accurately benchmarking phased small variant calls in human genomes.

ABSTRACT: Accurately benchmarking small variant calling accuracy is critical for the continued improvement of human whole genome sequencing. In this work, we show that current variant calling evaluations are biased towards certain variant representations and may misrepresent the relative performance of different variant calling pipelines. We propose solutions, first exploring the affine gap parameter design space for complex variant representation and suggesting a standard. Next, we present our tool vcfdist and demonstrate the importance of enforcing local phasing for evaluation accuracy. We then introduce the notion of partial credit for mostly-correct calls and present an algorithm for clustering dependent variants. Lastly, we motivate using alignment distance metrics to supplement precision-recal

SUBMITTER: Dunn T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10710436 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature