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How should I choose? Decoy or not?

Whe I goto: ftp://ftp.broadinstitute.org/bundle/b37/, there are two FASTA files I can use for alignment:

  • human_g1k_v37_decoy.fasta.gz
  • human_g1k_v37.fasta.gz

The two files are very close in file size. As far as I understand, the decoy version is slighter faster. Other than that, anything else I should consider?

I have a human sample, how should I choose? Speed is not a particular concern for me.

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Oddly, I get an error 550: no such file or directory when trying to reach ftp://ftp.broadinstitute.org/bundle/b37/. Anyway, here (at "Which version should I use?") you will find a short explanation about the decoy genome, and here, a longer explanation.

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