Communications Biology (Dec 2020)

A validated lineage-derived somatic truth data set enables benchmarking in cancer genome analysis

  • Megan Shand,
  • Jose Soto,
  • Lee Lichtenstein,
  • David Benjamin,
  • Yossi Farjoun,
  • Yehuda Brody,
  • Yosef Maruvka,
  • Paul C. Blainey,
  • Eric Banks

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01460-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Megan Shand et al. present Lineage derived Somatic Truth (LinST), a validated data set of somatic mutations from a colon cancer cell line with a known lineage tree structure. They show that LinST can be used to benchmark true-positive and false-positive rates in somatic variant-calling pipelines applied to cancer genomic data.