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MutScan: fast detection and visualization of target mutations by scanning FASTQ data

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Bioinformatics, January 2018
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Title
MutScan: fast detection and visualization of target mutations by scanning FASTQ data
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BMC Bioinformatics, January 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12859-018-2024-6
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Shifu Chen, Tanxiao Huang, Tiexiang Wen, Hong Li, Mingyan Xu, Jia Gu

Abstract

Some types of clinical genetic tests, such as cancer testing using circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), require sensitive detection of known target mutations. However, conventional next-generation sequencing (NGS) data analysis pipelines typically involve different steps of filtering, which may cause miss-detection of key mutations with low frequencies. Variant validation is also indicated for key mutations detected by bioinformatics pipelines. Typically, this process can be executed using alignment visualization tools such as IGV or GenomeBrowse. However, these tools are too heavy and therefore unsuitable for validating mutations in ultra-deep sequencing data. We developed MutScan to address problems of sensitive detection and efficient validation for target mutations. MutScan involves highly optimized string-searching algorithms, which can scan input FASTQ files to grab all reads that support target mutations. The collected supporting reads for each target mutation will be piled up and visualized using web technologies such as HTML and JavaScript. Algorithms such as rolling hash and bloom filter are applied to accelerate scanning and make MutScan applicable to detect or visualize target mutations in a very fast way. MutScan is a tool for the detection and visualization of target mutations by only scanning FASTQ raw data directly. Compared to conventional pipelines, this offers a very high performance, executing about 20 times faster, and offering maximal sensitivity since it can grab mutations with even one single supporting read. MutScan visualizes detected mutations by generating interactive pile-ups using web technologies. These can serve to validate target mutations, thus avoiding false positives. Furthermore, MutScan can visualize all mutation records in a VCF file to HTML pages for cloud-friendly VCF validation. MutScan is an open source tool available at GitHub: https://github.com/OpenGene/MutScan.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 48 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 16 33%
Student > Bachelor 5 10%
Student > Master 4 8%
Professor 2 4%
Unspecified 2 4%
Other 4 8%
Unknown 15 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 13 27%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 8%
Computer Science 3 6%
Unspecified 2 4%
Other 6 13%
Unknown 16 33%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 November 2018.
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