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ArticleGenome biology2024

Comprehensive and deep evaluation of structural variation detection pipelines with third-generation sequencing data.

Zhi Liu, Zhi Xie, Miaoxin Li

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Zhi LiuProgram in Bioinformatics, Zhongshan School of Medicine, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Zhi XieState Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Miaoxin LiProgram in Bioinformatics, Zhongshan School of Medicine, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China. limiaoxin@mail.sysu.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0002-4733-0109

Funding

Guangdong Project 2017GC010644National Natural Science Foundation of China (31970650National Natural Science Foundation of China 32170637)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundStructural variation (SV) detection methods using third-generation sequencing data are widely employed, yet accurately detecting SVs remains challenging. Different methods often yield inconsistent results for certain SV types, complicating tool selection and revealing biases in detection.

resultsThis study comprehensively evaluates 53 SV detection pipelines using simulated and real data from PacBio (CLR: Continuous Long Read, CCS: Circular Consensus Sequencing) and Nanopore (ONT) platforms. We assess their performance in detecting various sizes and types of SVs, breakpoint biases, and genotyping accuracy with various sequencing depths. Notably, pipelines such as Minimap2-cuteSV2, NGMLR-SVIM, PBMM2-pbsv, Winnowmap-Sniffles2, and Winnowmap-SVision exhibit comparatively higher recall and precision. Our findings also show that combining multiple pipelines with the same aligner, like pbmm2 or winnowmap, can significantly enhance performance. The individual pipelines' detailed ranking and performance metrics can be viewed in a dynamic table: http://pmglab.top/SVPipelinesRanking .

conclusionsThis study comprehensively characterizes the strengths and weaknesses of numerous pipelines, providing valuable insights that can improve SV detection in third-generation sequencing data and inform SV annotation and function prediction.

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High-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingGenomic Structural VariationHumansSequence Analysis, DNASoftwareLong-readsPipeline evaluationSequence alignerStructural variationSV callerThird-generation sequencing

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PMID39010145
PMCPMC11247875

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