Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Deep convolutional neural networks for accurate somatic mutation detection

  • Sayed Mohammad Ebrahim Sahraeian,
  • Ruolin Liu,
  • Bayo Lau,
  • Karl Podesta,
  • Marghoob Mohiyuddin,
  • Hugo Y. K. Lam

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09027-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Somatic mutations are crucial to the understanding of cancer genesis, progression, and treatment, but are still challenging to detect. Here the authors present NeuSomatic, a convolutional neural network approach for accurate somatic mutation detection across various sequencing scenarios.