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SONiCS: PCR stutter noise correction in genome-scale microsatellites.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

Massively parallel capture of short tandem repeats (STRs, or microsatellites) provides a strategy for population genomic and demographic analyses at high resolution with or without a reference genome. However, the high Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) cycle numbers needed for target capture experiments create genotyping noise through polymerase slippage known as PCR stutter.

Results

We developed SONiCS-Stutter mONte Carlo Simulation-a solution for stutter correction based on dense forward simulations of PCR and capture experimental conditions. To test SONiCS, we genotyped a 2499-marker STR panel in 22 humpback dolphins (Sousa sahulensis) using target capture, and generated capillary-based genotypes to validate five of these markers. In these 110 comparisons, SONiCS showed a 99.1% accuracy rate and a 98.2% genotyping success rate, miscalling a single allele in a marker with low sequence coverage and rejecting another as un-callable.

Availability and implementation

Source code and documentation for SONiCS is freely available at https://github.com/kzkedzierska/sonics. Raw read data used in experimental validation of SONiCS have been deposited in the Sequence Read Archive under accession number SRP135756.

Supplementary information

Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

SUBMITTER: Kedzierska KZ

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6454461 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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SONiCS: PCR stutter noise correction in genome-scale microsatellites.

Kedzierska Katarzyna Z KZ Gerber Livia L Cagnazzi Daniele D Krützen Michael M Ratan Aakrosh A Kistler Logan L

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 20181201 23

<h4>Motivation</h4>Massively parallel capture of short tandem repeats (STRs, or microsatellites) provides a strategy for population genomic and demographic analyses at high resolution with or without a reference genome. However, the high Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) cycle numbers needed for target capture experiments create genotyping noise through polymerase slippage known as PCR stutter.<h4>Results</h4>We developed SONiCS-Stutter mONte Carlo Simulation-a solution for stutter correction base ...[more]

PMID: 29931218

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SONiCS: PCR stutter noise correction in genome-scale microsatellites.

Motivation

Results

Availability and implementation

Supplementary information

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SONiCS: PCR stutter noise correction in genome-scale microsatellites.

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