tHapMix: simulating tumour samples through haplotype mixtures

S Ivakhno, C Colombo, S Tanner, P Tedder… - …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Large-scale rearrangements and copy number changes combined with different
modes of clonal evolution create extensive somatic genome diversity, making it difficult to …

A simulator for somatic evolution study design

A Srivatsa, H Lei, R Schwartz - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Motivation Somatic evolution plays a key role in development, cell differentiation, and
normal aging, but also diseases such as cancer, which is now mainly thought of as a …

A unified haplotype-based method for accurate and comprehensive variant calling

DP Cooke, DC Wedge, G Lunter - Nature biotechnology, 2021 - nature.com
Almost all haplotype-based variant callers were designed specifically for detecting common
germline variation in diploid populations, and give suboptimal results in other scenarios …

[HTML][HTML] Refphase: Multi-sample phasing reveals haplotype-specific copy number heterogeneity

TBK Watkins, EC Colliver, MR Huska… - PLoS computational …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Most computational methods that infer somatic copy number alterations (SCNAs) from bulk
sequencing of DNA analyse tumour samples individually. However, the sequencing of …

[HTML][HTML] A Bayesian method to infer copy number clones from single-cell RNA and ATAC sequencing

L Patruno, S Milite, R Bergamin… - PLOS Computational …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Single-cell RNA and ATAC sequencing technologies enable the examination of gene
expression and chromatin accessibility in individual cells, providing insights into cellular …

Refphase: Multi-sample reference phasing reveals haplotype-specific copy number heterogeneity

TBK Watkins, EC Colliver, MR Huska, TL Kaufmann… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Most computational methods that infer somatic copy number alterations (SCNAs) from bulk
sequencing of DNA analyse tumour samples individually. However, the sequencing of …

Strelka2: fast and accurate variant calling for clinical sequencing applications

S Kim, K Scheffler, AL Halpern, MA Bekritsky, E Noh… - Biorxiv, 2017 - biorxiv.org
We describe Strelka2 (https://github. com/Illumina/strelka), an open-source small variant
calling method for clinical germline and somatic sequencing applications. Strelka2 …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated approach to generate artificial samples with low tumor fraction for somatic variant calling benchmarking

A Sergi, L Beltrame, S Marchini, M Masseroli - BMC bioinformatics, 2024 - Springer
Background High-throughput sequencing (HTS) has become the gold standard approach for
variant analysis in cancer research. However, somatic variants may occur at low fractions …

[HTML][HTML] Xome-Blender: a novel cancer genome simulator

R Semeraro, V Orlandini, A Magi - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The adoption of next generation sequencing based methods in cancer research allowed for
the investigation of the complex genetic structure of tumor samples. In the last few years …

[HTML][HTML] Bamgineer: Introduction of simulated allele-specific copy number variants into exome and targeted sequence data sets

S Samadian, JP Bruce, TJ Pugh - PLoS Computational Biology, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Somatic copy number variations (CNVs) play a crucial role in development of many human
cancers. The broad availability of next-generation sequencing data has enabled the …