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Variant Analysis Of Sanger-Only Sequencing Data

Hi Everyone!

I am working with Sanger Sequencing (no NGS), I had previously only used Sanger to validate primers or my NGS data. Now I am sequencing a relatively small region of high homology to others using Sanger. I am wondering what is the most efficient work-flow to analyze variants.

I know I can just make my data fit one of the formats required by Annovar or SeattleSeq and get some output, but I am unsure on whether this is the correct approach, I also wonder if there is anything else out there specifically for Sanger or that has the actual consideration of a Sanger "input".

Thanks in advance, Dra. E.

sanger sequencing variant analysis mutation prediction

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The high throughput tools are used to reduce the data to a smaller manageable size. They are almost always characterized by non-trivial rates of error but we still use them as any other approach would be unfeasible.

Once that is done and there are only a few locations manual inspection and analysis of each of the sites is the best way to get the most out of the data.

I would recommend to use Annovar or other tools to get started with annotating the variants, but after that laying the data over other known information sources is the best approach.

Thanks! (I was away from the office, sorry for the late acknowledgement!)

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