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OVAS: an open-source variant analysis suite with inheritance modelling

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Bioinformatics, February 2018
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Title
OVAS: an open-source variant analysis suite with inheritance modelling
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BMC Bioinformatics, February 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12859-018-2030-8
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Monika Mozere, Mehmet Tekman, Jameela Kari, Detlef Bockenhauer, Robert Kleta, Horia Stanescu

Abstract

The advent of modern high-throughput genetics continually broadens the gap between the rising volume of sequencing data, and the tools required to process them. The need to pinpoint a small subset of functionally important variants has now shifted towards identifying the critical differences between normal variants and disease-causing ones. The ever-increasing reliance on cloud-based services for sequence analysis and the non-transparent methods they utilize has prompted the need for more in-situ services that can provide a safer and more accessible environment to process patient data, especially in circumstances where continuous internet usage is limited. To address these issues, we herein propose our standalone Open-source Variant Analysis Sequencing (OVAS) pipeline; consisting of three key stages of processing that pertain to the separate modes of annotation, filtering, and interpretation. Core annotation performs variant-mapping to gene-isoforms at the exon/intron level, append functional data pertaining the type of variant mutation, and determine hetero/homozygosity. An extensive inheritance-modelling module in conjunction with 11 other filtering components can be used in sequence ranging from single quality control to multi-file penetrance model specifics such as X-linked recessive or mosaicism. Depending on the type of interpretation required, additional annotation is performed to identify organ specificity through gene expression and protein domains. In the course of this paper we analysed an autosomal recessive case study. OVAS made effective use of the filtering modules to recapitulate the results of the study by identifying the prescribed compound-heterozygous disease pattern from exome-capture sequence input samples. OVAS is an offline open-source modular-driven analysis environment designed to annotate and extract useful variants from Variant Call Format (VCF) files, and process them under an inheritance context through a top-down filtering schema of swappable modules, run entirely off a live bootable medium and accessed locally through a web-browser.

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Unknown 18 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 4 22%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 22%
Student > Bachelor 3 17%
Other 2 11%
Student > Master 2 11%
Other 1 6%
Unknown 2 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 28%
Computer Science 3 17%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 17%
Engineering 2 11%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 6%
Other 2 11%
Unknown 2 11%
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