Dunn, T.
, Zook, J.
, Holt, J.
and Narayanasamy, S.
(2024),
Jointly benchmarking small and structural variant calls with vcfdist, Genome Biology, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=957429
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Jointly benchmarking small and structural variant calls with vcfdist
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Tim Dunn, , James Holt, Satish Narayanasamy
Abstract
In this work, we extend vcfdist to be the first variant call benchmarking tool to jointly evaluate phased single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), small insertions/deletions (INDELs), and structural variants (SVs) for the whole genome. First, we find that a joint evaluation of small and structural variants uniformly reduces measured errors for SNPs (− 28.9%), INDELs (− 19.3%), and SVs (− 52.4%) across three datasets. vcfdist also corrects a common flaw in phasing evaluations, reducing measured flip errors by over 50%. Lastly, we show that vcfdist is more accurate than previously published works and on par with the newest approaches while providing improved result interpretability.Citation
Genome Biology
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25
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human genome, variant calling, benchmarking, structural variants
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Created October 2, 2024, Updated March 4, 2025