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From FastQ data to high confidence variant calls: the Genome Analysis Toolkit best practices pipeline

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Van der Auwera, Geraldine A., Carneiro, Mauricio O., Hartl, Christopher, Poplin, Ryan, del Angel, Guillermo, Levy‐Moonshine, Ami, Jordan, Tadeusz, Shakir, Khalid +7 more·2013·Current Protocols in Bioinformatics

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This unit describes how to use BWA and the Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK) to map genome sequencing data to a reference and produce high‐quality variant calls that can be used in downstream analyses. The complete workflow includes the core NGS data‐processing steps that are necessary to make the raw data suitable for analysis by the GATK, as well as the key methods involved in variant discovery using the GATK. Curr. Protoc. Bioinform . 43:11.10.1‐11.10.33. © 2013 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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Van der Auwera, G. A., Carneiro, M. O., Hartl, C., Poplin, R., del Angel, G., Levy‐Moonshine, A., Jordan, T., Shakir, K., Roazen, D., Thibault, J., Banks, E., Garimella, K. V., Altshuler, D., Gabriel, S., & DePristo, M. A.
Affiliations
  • Genome Sequencing and Analysis Group Broad Institute Cambridge Massachusetts
  • Broad Institute (US)
  • Centre for Human Genetics (GB)
Venue
Current Protocols in Bioinformatics
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2013-10
Volume
43
Issue
1
Pages
11.10.1-11.10.33
ISSN
  • 1934-3396 (ISSN-L)
  • 1934-340X
OpenAlex
W1919257374
Cited by
6,687
References
14
Citations by year
2026: 342 · 2025: 559 · 2024: 677 · 2023: 662 · 2022: 729 · 2021: 877 · 2020: 716 · 2019: 648 · 2018: 528 · 2017: 416 · 2016: 293 · 2015: 168 · 2014: 60 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 1
FWCI
78.15
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Current Protocols in Bioinformatics (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Human Genome Research Institute (U54HG003067, U01HG006569)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research
Keywords
variant calling, GATK, BWA, genome alignment, next-generation sequencing data processing, variant discovery, reference genome mapping, bioinformatics pipeline
MeSH terms
Calibration, Haploidy, Haplotypes, Humans, Software, Genetic Variation, Genome, Human, Sequence Alignment, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Databases, Genetic, Molecular Sequence Annotation

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