2013年3月8日星期五

VPA: an R tool for analyzing sequencing variants with user-specified frequency pattern


VPA: an R tool for analyzing sequencing variants with user-specified frequency pattern


Background

The massive amounts of genetic variant generated by the next generation sequencing systems demand the development of effective computational tools for variant prioritization.

Findings

VPA (Variant Pattern Analyzer) is an R tool for prioritizing variants with specified frequency pattern from multiple study subjects in next-generation sequencing study. The tool starts from individual files of variant and sequence calls and extract variants with user-specified frequency pattern across the study subjects of interest. Several position level quality criteria can be incorporated into the variant extraction. It can be used in studies with matched pair design as well as studies with multiple groups of subjects.

Conclusions

VPA can be used as an automatic pipeline to prioritize variants for further functional exploration and hypothesis generation. The package is implemented in the R language and is freely available from http://vpa.r-forge.r-project.org webcite.

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