Quantifying the influence of mutation detection on tumour subclonal reconstruction

The impact of variant calling algorithms on the analysis of intra-tumour heterogeneity has not been properly quantified. Here the authors measure the variability of 22 pipelines with different variant callers and clustering algorithms for subclonal reconstruction to inform future analyses.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lydia Y. Liu, Vinayak Bhandari, Adriana Salcedo, Shadrielle M. G. Espiritu, Quaid D. Morris, Thomas Kislinger, Paul C. Boutros
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20055-w