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Mapping and characterization of structural variation in 17,795 human genomes
Abel HJ, Larson DE, Regier AA, Chiang C, Das I, Kanchi KL, Layer RM, Neale BM, Salerno WJ, Reeves C, Buyske S, Matise T, Muzny D, Zody M, Lander E, Dutcher S, Stitziel N, Hall I. Mapping and characterization of structural variation in 17,795 human genomes. Nature 2020, 583: 83-89. PMID: 32460305, PMCID: PMC7547914, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2371-0.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsStructural variantsWhole-genome sequencingHuman genomeUltra-rare structural variantsRare structural variantsSuch structural variantsSingle nucleotide variantsNoncoding elementsDosage sensitivityGenomeHuman geneticsSmall insertionsComplex rearrangementsDeletion variantsSmall variantsStructural variationsGenesSequencingAllelesForm of variationVariantsElement classesSite frequency dataDeleterious effectsGeneticssvtools: population-scale analysis of structural variation
Larson DE, Abel HJ, Chiang C, Badve A, Das I, Eldred JM, Layer RM, Hall IM. svtools: population-scale analysis of structural variation. Bioinformatics 2019, 35: 4782-4787. PMID: 31218349, PMCID: PMC6853660, DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btz492.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSVScore: an impact prediction tool for structural variation
Ganel L, Abel HJ, , Hall IM. SVScore: an impact prediction tool for structural variation. Bioinformatics 2017, 33: 1083-1085. PMID: 28031184, PMCID: PMC5408916, DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw789.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSpeedSeq: ultra-fast personal genome analysis and interpretation
Chiang C, Layer RM, Faust GG, Lindberg MR, Rose DB, Garrison EP, Marth GT, Quinlan AR, Hall IM. SpeedSeq: ultra-fast personal genome analysis and interpretation. Nature Methods 2015, 12: 966-968. PMID: 26258291, PMCID: PMC4589466, DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.3505.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchBEDTools: a flexible suite of utilities for comparing genomic features
Quinlan AR, Hall IM. BEDTools: a flexible suite of utilities for comparing genomic features. Bioinformatics 2010, 26: 841-842. PMID: 20110278, PMCID: PMC2832824, DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq033.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBrowser Extensible DataComprehensive user manualNew software suiteUNIX commandsMassive datasetsLarge genomic datasetsSource codeExtensible dataGenomics tasksSoftware suiteFundamental taskLarge datasetsBAM formatUser manualAnnotation tracksWeb-based methodsSupplementary dataEfficient mannerFlexible suiteDatasetFlexible toolBEDToolsCurrent sequencing technologiesGenomic datasetsTask
2014
Population-based structural variation discovery with Hydra-Multi
Lindberg MR, Hall IM, Quinlan AR. Population-based structural variation discovery with Hydra-Multi. Bioinformatics 2014, 31: 1286-1289. PMID: 25527832, PMCID: PMC4393510, DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu771.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNumber of genomesSV analysisStructural variation discoveryStructural variant detectionHuman genomeCancer Genome AtlasVariation discoveryGenomic rearrangementsGenome ProjectSequence alignmentSignal integrationIndel discoveryGenome AtlasGenomeMultiple individualsSupplementary dataSize variabilityVariant detectionCommodity hardwarePoor scalabilityAvailable datasetsAnalysis workflowScalabilityExtant toolsDiscoverySAMBLASTER: fast duplicate marking and structural variant read extraction
Faust GG, Hall IM. SAMBLASTER: fast duplicate marking and structural variant read extraction. Bioinformatics 2014, 30: 2503-2505. PMID: 24812344, PMCID: PMC4147885, DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu314.Peer-Reviewed Original Research