ContEst

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Application data

Principal bioinformatics method(s) Sequencing quality control
Maintained? Maybe
Input format(s) VCF, BAM
Programming language(s) Java
Licence BSD

Summary: GATK tool to estimate amount of cross-individual contaminating sequence in a dataset

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Description

Cross-contamination of samples in a large sequencing facility is inevitable, even with elaborate safeguards. ContEst estimates the degree of such contamination in a sequencing dataset, using known population allele frequencies and microarray measurements.






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References

  1. . 2011. Bioinformatics


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