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ArticleWellcome open research2018

CoverView: a sequence quality evaluation tool for next generation sequencing data.

Márton Münz, Shazia Mahamdallie, Shawn Yost, Andrew Rimmer, Emma Poyastro-Pearson, Ann Strydom, Sheila Seal, Elise Ruark, Nazneen Rahman

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Article in Wellcome open research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Márton MünzDivision of Genetics & Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SM2 5NG, UK.
Shazia MahamdallieDivision of Genetics & Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SM2 5NG, UK.
Shawn YostDivision of Genetics & Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SM2 5NG, UK.
Andrew RimmerDivision of Genetics & Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SM2 5NG, UK.
Emma Poyastro-PearsonDivision of Genetics & Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SM2 5NG, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8191-4928
Ann StrydomDivision of Genetics & Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SM2 5NG, UK.
Sheila SealDivision of Genetics & Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SM2 5NG, UK.
Elise RuarkDivision of Genetics & Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SM2 5NG, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9373-4059
Nazneen RahmanDivision of Genetics & Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SM2 5NG, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4376-0440
Institute of Cancer Research · GBRoyal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust · GB

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quality assurance and quality control are essential for robust next generation sequencing (NGS). Here we present CoverView, a fast, flexible, user-friendly quality evaluation tool for NGS data. CoverView processes mapped sequencing reads and user-specified regions to report depth of coverage, base and mapping quality metrics with increasing levels of detail from a chromosome-level summary to per-base profiles. CoverView can flag regions that do not fulfil user-specified quality requirements, allowing suboptimal data to be systematically and automatically presented for review. It also provides an interactive graphical user interface (GUI) that can be opened in a web browser and allows intuitive exploration of results. We have integrated CoverView into our accredited clinical cancer predisposition gene testing laboratory that uses the TruSight Cancer Panel (TSCP). CoverView has been invaluable for optimisation and quality control of our testing pipeline, providing transparent, consistent quality metric information and automatic flagging of regions that fall below quality thresholds. We demonstrate this utility with TSCP data from the Genome in a Bottle reference sample, which CoverView analysed in 13 seconds. CoverView uses data routinely generated by NGS pipelines, reads standard input formats, and rapidly creates easy-to-parse output text (.txt) files that are customised by a simple configuration file. CoverView can therefore be easily integrated into any NGS pipeline. CoverView and detailed documentation for its use are freely available at github.com/RahmanTeamDevelopment/CoverView/releases and www.icr.ac.uk/CoverView.

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base qualitydepth of coveragegenetic testingmapping qualityNGSQSMquality assurancequality controlQuality Sequencing Minimimum

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PMID29881786
PMCPMC5964631
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