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  • varscan - filter out those snps close to indels

    hi,

    just a quick question about the somaticFilter provided by Varscan:

    --indel-file File of indels for filtering nearby SNPs

    What does (exactly) it mean 'nearby'? within the same read? at 'x' bp of distance?

    thanks!

  • #2
    I don't know but I am also interested in the answer...

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    • #3
      Hey guys, thanks for this question and I'm sorry it took me this long to find it and answer! The --indel-filter parameter lets you specify a list of indels (called by VarScan pileup2indel) that will be used for filtering false positive SNPs due to local read mis-alignments due to indels. It will remove SNP calls at or within 1 bp of an indel's position (as reported in mpileup).

      I'll see about making this distance a user-defined parameter in the next release.

      For future help, please try to post in the VarScan Help forum:
      http://sourceforge.net/projects/vars.../forum/1073559

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      • #4
        Ok, so 'nearby' means 1bp, thank you.

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        • #5
          Filtering varscan variants

          I would like to ask removing the snps closer to indels at 1bp thus removes a lot of snps for me. But it is not a test for false positive right? I believe if am using the local realignment around indel step with with GATK so the mis matches due to indel should not be a reason to work if you used GATK processed bam files for varscan and other standard variant calling tools. I am having typical normal/tumor sequenced at 70X for which I am calling variants with the varscan and if I do the somaticfilter with the sample.snp and sample.indel I lose a lot of SNPs. I get around 200 variants for my sample which I was thinking to be good numbers but then on annotating I miss out most on the exons. Also when I compare this results with mutect I do not get most of the mutations I receive with Mutect. So I ran again the VarScan with below command

          Code:
          samtools mpileup -f /scratch/GT/vdas/test_exome/exome/hg19.fa -q 1 -B /scratch/GT/vdas/pietro/exome_seq/results/N_S8980/N_S8980.realigned.recal.bam /scratch/GT/vdas/pietro/exome_seq/results/T_S7998/T_S7998.realigned.recal.bam | java -Xmx14G -jar /scratch/GT/softwares/VarScan.v2.3.6.jar somatic - /scratch/GT/vdas/pietro/exome_seq/results/varscan_out_17112014/S_313_T_soma_vcf.output --output-vcf 1 --mpileup 1 --min-var-freq 0.05 --min-coverage-normal 10 --min-coverage-tumor 8 --p-value 0.05
          Now am getting the sample.snps.vcf with over 11k variants. I am thinking of not using somaticfilter, rather use process somatic to have the high confidence snps and then use filtervariant.py script to extract most confident ones. How does this sound?

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