Procedural steps
The publication by 1 provides a good discussion of the common tools and approaches for variant calling. Also see the older 2.
The figure below depicts the essential steps of the pipeline, which are detailed in the subsequent sections.
Figure 1: Steps in the variant calling workflow |
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Nielsen, R., Paul, J. S., Albrechtsen, A. & Song, Y. S. Genotype and SNP calling from next-generation sequencing data. Nat. Rev. Genet. 12, 443–451 (2011). ↩
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