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Gene Fusion Prioritization Tool

Hello everyone,

I wanted to reach out and ask which tools are best for gene fusion priortization?

I want to know given a fusion variant from NGS can i use priortization tool to classify them as oncogenic or passenger?

I have come across, Oncofuse, Peagus and DeePrior .

My ground truth data (n = 532) did not perform very well across these tools.

Do you have any suggestions?

gene vus fusions variants

1 answer

I particularly like Arriba, although I've also used STAR-Fusion, Jaffa and FusionCatcher.

STAR-Fusion is very conservative (reports few calls). With Arriba you often find more false positives, but there are times when Arriba caught a fusion and STAR-Fusion didn't. They were both very successful in the DREAM fusion calling challenge.

Both JAFFA and FusionCatcher were a bit slow, and JAFFA often returns an immense list of fusions which you have to sift through.

Another nice thing about Arriba and STAR-Fusion is that you can basically align your data once, and then call both of them on the same aligned data.

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