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Table 2 Performance of smCounter, MuTect, and VarDict in detecting 1% variants in the coding region of N0030. Cutoffs were selected to represent optimal performance

From: Detecting very low allele fraction variants using targeted DNA sequencing and a novel molecular barcode-aware variant caller

Variant type

Variant Caller

TP

FP

FN

TPR(%)

FP /Mb

PPV(%)

SNV

smCounter

205

7

18

91.9

10

96.7

 

MuTect

214

58

9

96.0

85

78.7

 

VarDict

204

169

19

91.5

248

54.7

INDEL

smCounter

45

5

4

91.8

7

90.0

 

VarDict

43

100

6

87.8

147

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