/btMSI-CAST

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btMSI-CAST

b/tMSI-CAST (blood/tissue MSI Caller Adjusted with Sequence duplicaTes), an NGS-based composite MSI detection method that has a two-mode caller compatible with both tissue and plasma samples and does not require matched normal samples.

Usage

Version 0.10 Usage: msicast [options]

modes

dedup_only perform duplication removal only. deletion-ratio MSI calling under the deletion-ratio mode. kld MSI calling under the kld mode.

options

-- inbam (-i) input BAM file -- outprefix (-o) prefix for a series of output files

-c coverage threshold for msi analysis, default=20 -b threads number for parallel computing, default=1 -y output microsatellite only, 0: no; 1: yes, default=0

Example

take pre-deduplication BAMs as input and perform duplication removal by a proprietary majority-voting strategy.

Contact

If you have any questions, please contact one or more of the following folks: Beifang Niu bniu@sccas.cn Xinyin Han hanxinyin@cnic.cn