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Somaticindeldetector Vs Unifiedgenotyper

Hey Guys,

I've been establishing my own first pipeline for calling variants: Indels and SNPs. For that, I used mainly GATK tools.

I'm doing this for whole genome and whole exome sequences of mouse inbred strains.

So I'd like to hear your opinion about calling Indels with SomaticIndelDetector (--unpaired flag for simple sample) or UnifiedGenotyper (INDEL mode).

Which one gives better results and is more appropriate for my study?

gatk indel

Could you expand on why you're considering SomaticIndelDetector please? I would have thought, given your application, you'd be following up germline variation rather than somatic mutations wouldn't you?

My understanding is that SomaticIndelDetector only makes that difference (germline/somatic indel) when analyzing two samples (tumor and normal). In the unpaired mode, I guess it just calls Indels...

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