VarSim: a high-fidelity simulation and validation framework for high-throughput genome sequencing with cancer applications.

ABSTRACT:

Summary

VarSim is a framework for assessing alignment and variant calling accuracy in high-throughput genome sequencing through simulation or real data. In contrast to simulating a random mutation spectrum, it synthesizes diploid genomes with germline and somatic mutations based on a realistic model. This model leverages information such as previously reported mutations to make the synthetic genomes biologically relevant. VarSim simulates and validates a wide range of variants, including single nucleotide variants, small indels and large structural variants. It is an automated, comprehensive compute framework supporting parallel computation and multiple read simulators. Furthermore, we developed a novel map data structure to validate read alignments, a strategy to compare variants

SUBMITTER: Mu JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4410653 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature