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Table 1 Effects of the differences between BWA and Bowtie 2 alignments on the accuracy of variant calling in simulated data set

From: VariantMetaCaller: automated fusion of variant calling pipelines for quantitative, precision-based filtering

Difference between BWA and Bowtie 2 in terms of

SNPs

Indels

 

Mean difference

95 % CI

P-value

Mean difference

95 % CI

P-value

Maximum sensitivity of VariantMetaCaller

0.028

0.027−0.029

2.2×10−16

0.044

0.042−0.046

2.2×10−16

Precision at maximum sensitivity

0.009

0.007−0.01

2.2×10−16

0.039

0.025−0.053

8.6×10−7

AUPRC of VariantMetaCaller

0.028

0.027−0.029

2.2×10−16

0.042

0.040−0.044

2.2×10−16