Title
VarSim: a high-fidelity simulation and validation framework for high-throughput genome sequencing with cancer applications.
Abstract
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 binned in size ranges and a lightweight, interactive, graphical report to visualize validation results with detailed statistics. Thus far, it is the most comprehensive validation tool for secondary analysis in next generation sequencing.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1093/bioinformatics/btu828
BIOINFORMATICS
Field
DocType
Volume
Genome,Data mining,Data structure,Computer science,Genomics,Software,DNA sequencing,Bioinformatics,Java,Python (programming language),Indel
Journal
31
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
9
1367-4803
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.69
6
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
John C. Mu1201.80
Marghoob Mohiyuddin217911.27
Jian Li370.69
Narges Bani Asadi4696.40
Mark B Gerstein570.69
Alexej Abyzov6617.42
Wing Hung Wong760796.45
Hugo Y K Lam81036.39