SMuRF: portable and accurate ensemble prediction of somatic mutations.

ABSTRACT:

Summary

Somatic Mutation calling method using a Random Forest (SMuRF) integrates predictions and auxiliary features from multiple somatic mutation callers using a supervised machine learning approach. SMuRF is trained on community-curated matched tumor and normal whole genome sequencing data. SMuRF predicts both SNVs and indels with high accuracy in genome or exome-level sequencing data. Furthermore, the method is robust across multiple tested cancer types and predicts low allele frequency variants with high accuracy. In contrast to existing ensemble-based somatic mutation calling approaches, SMuRF works out-of-the-box and is orders of magnitudes faster.

Availability and implementation

The method is implemented in R and available at https://github.com/skandlab/SMuRF. SMuRF o

SUBMITTER: Huang W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6735703 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature