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- Title
A computational method for detecting copy number variations using scale-space filtering.
- Authors
Jongkeun Lee; Unjoo Lee; Baeksop Kim; Jeehee Yoon
- Abstract
Background: As next-generation sequencing technology made rapid and cost-effective sequencing available, the importance of computational approaches in finding and analyzing copy number variations (CNVs) has been amplified. Furthermore, most genome projects need to accurately analyze sequences with fairly low-coverage read data. It is urgently needed to develop a method to detect the exact types and locations of CNVs from low coverage read data. Results: Here, we propose a new CNV detection method, CNV SS, which uses scale-space filtering. The scale-space filtering is evaluated by applying to the read coverage data the Gaussian convolution for various scales according to a given scaling parameter. Next, by differentiating twice and finding zero-crossing points, inflection points of scale-space filtered read coverage data are calculated per scale. Then, the types and the exact locations of CNVs are obtained by analyzing the finger print map, the contours of zero-crossing points for various scales. Conclusions: The performance of CNV SS showed that FNR and FPR stay in the range of 1.27% to 2.43% and 1.14% to 2.44%, respectively, even at a relatively low coverage (0.5x⩽C⩽2x). CNV_SS gave also much more effective results than the conventional methods in the evaluation of FNR, at 3.82% at least and 76.97% at most even when the coverage level of read data is low. CNV_SS source code is freely available from http://dblab.hallym.ac.kr/CNV_SS/.
- Subjects
GAUSSIAN distribution; COST effectiveness; GENOMES; GENE expression; HUMAN fingerprints
- Publication
BMC Bioinformatics, 2013, Vol 14, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1471-2105
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/1471-2105-14-57