Detecting virus integration sites based on multiple related sequencing data by VirTect.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Since tumor often has a high level of intra-tumor heterogeneity, multiple tumor samples from the same patient at different locations or different time points are often sequenced to study tumor intra-heterogeneity or tumor evolution. In virus-related tumors such as human papillomavirus- and Hepatitis B Virus-related tumors, virus genome integrations can be critical driving events. It is thus important to investigate the integration sites of the virus genomes. Currently, a few algorithms for detecting virus integration sites based on high-throughput sequencing have been developed, but their insufficient performance in their sensitivity, specificity and computational complexity hinders their applications in multiple related tumor sequencing.

Results

We develop VirTec

SUBMITTER: Xia Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6357354 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature