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Table 1 Evaluation of INDELseek complex indel detection performance

From: INDELseek: detection of complex insertions and deletions from next-generation sequencing data

Dataset

Sample count and description

Sensitivity

Specificity

Real NGS data

 1. Protein-coding and flanking regions from whole-genome sequencing (random fragments)

1 (NA12878)

100%

100%

160 putative complex indels

26 negative control loci

 2. Hereditary breast and/or ovarian cancer panel (amplicons)

239

100%

100%

3 positive samples (BRCA1 n = 1, BRCA2 n = 2)

236 negative samples

 3. Myeloid neoplasm panel (amplicons)

23

100%

100%

5 positive samples (CALR n = 4, JAK2 n = 1)

18 negative samples (NA12878 and 17 healthy controls)

Semi-simulated data by engineering mutations to real NGS data

 1. Whole-genome sequencing (random fragments)

8671 collected from COSMIC and dbSNP

93.7%

N/A

 2. Hereditary breast and/or ovarian cancer panel (amplicons)

237 collected from COSMIC and dbSNP

96.2%

N/A

 3. Myeloid neoplasm panel (amplicons)

576 collected from COSMIC and dbSNP

94.6%

N/A

  1. N/A Not applicable