CHILD: a new tool for detecting low-abundance insertions and deletions in standard sequence traces.

ABSTRACT: Several methods have been proposed for detecting insertion/deletions (indels) from chromatograms generated by Sanger sequencing. However, most such methods are unsuitable when the mutated and normal variants occur at unequal ratios, such as is expected to be the case in cancer, with organellar DNA or with alternatively spliced RNAs. In addition, the current methods do not provide robust estimates of the statistical confidence of their results, and the sensitivity of this approach has not been rigorously evaluated. Here, we present CHILD, a tool specifically designed for indel detection in mixtures where one variant is rare. CHILD makes use of standard sequence alignment statistics to evaluate the significance of the results. The sensitivity of CHILD was tested by sequencing controlled mixt

SUBMITTER: Zhidkov I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3074157 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature