TY - JOUR A1 - Li, Shengting A1 - Li, Ruiqiang A1 - Li, Heng A1 - Lu, Jianliang A1 - Li, Yingrui A1 - Bolund, Lars A1 - Schierup, Mikkel H. A1 - Wang, Jun T1 - SOAPindel: Efficient identification of indels from short paired reads Y1 - 2013/01/01 JF - Genome Research JO - Genome Research SP - 195 EP - 200 DO - 10.1101/gr.132480.111 VL - 23 IS - 1 UR - http://genome.cshlp.org/content/23/1/195.abstract N2 - We present a new approach to indel calling that explicitly exploits that indel differences between a reference and a sequenced sample make the mapping of reads less efficient. We assign all unmapped reads with a mapped partner to their expected genomic positions and then perform extensive de novo assembly on the regions with many unmapped reads to resolve homozygous, heterozygous, and complex indels by exhaustive traversal of the de Bruijn graph. The method is implemented in the software SOAPindel and provides a list of candidate indels with quality scores. We compare SOAPindel to Dindel, Pindel, and GATK on simulated data and find similar or better performance for short indels (<10 bp) and higher sensitivity and specificity for long indels. A validation experiment suggests that SOAPindel has a false-positive rate of ∼10% for long indels (>5 bp), while still providing many more candidate indels than other approaches. ER -