How to find positions with higher depth relative to their surroundings
Hello.
I try to find positions that have higher depth significantly than their surroundings.
Is there a good way to do this?
Currently I have depth per position data from samtools depth.
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The usual way of doing this is to use one of the many existing copy number variant caller. Doing this yourself is both a) complicated to do correctly (the stats for depth per position are complicated by the fact that adjacent position depths are highly correlated since they share reads), and b) already done by someone else.
TLDR: save yourself time and effort by using an existing CNV caller.
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