Nature Communications (Oct 2020)

Framework for quality assessment of whole genome cancer sequences

  • Justin P. Whalley,
  • Ivo Buchhalter,
  • Esther Rheinbay,
  • Keiran M. Raine,
  • Miranda D. Stobbe,
  • Kortine Kleinheinz,
  • Johannes Werner,
  • Sergi Beltran,
  • Marta Gut,
  • Daniel Hübschmann,
  • Barbara Hutter,
  • Dimitri Livitz,
  • Marc D. Perry,
  • Mara Rosenberg,
  • Gordon Saksena,
  • Jean-Rémi Trotta,
  • Roland Eils,
  • Daniela S. Gerhard,
  • Peter J. Campbell,
  • Matthias Schlesner,
  • Ivo G. Gut

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18688-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Working with cancer genomes from multiple projects can increase investigative power, but quality of sequences can vary. Here, the authors present a framework for comparing whole genome sequencing quality to help researchers guide downstream analyses and exclude poor quality samples.