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ArticleGenome biology2020

DiMSum: an error model and pipeline for analyzing deep mutational scanning data and diagnosing common experimental pathologies.

Andre J Faure, Jörn M Schmiedel, Pablo Baeza-Centurion, Ben Lehner

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Article in Genome biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 65 papers.

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4 authors.

Andre J FaureCenter for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Doctor Aiguader 88, 08003, Barcelona, Spain.
Jörn M SchmiedelCenter for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Doctor Aiguader 88, 08003, Barcelona, Spain. joern.schmiedel@gmail.com.
Pablo Baeza-CenturionCenter for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Doctor Aiguader 88, 08003, Barcelona, Spain.
Ben LehnerCenter for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Doctor Aiguader 88, 08003, Barcelona, Spain. ben.lehner@crg.eu.ORCID 0000-0002-8817-1124

Funding

European Research Council 616434
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Deep mutational scanning (DMS) enables multiplexed measurement of the effects of thousands of variants of proteins, RNAs, and regulatory elements. Here, we present a customizable pipeline, DiMSum, that represents an end-to-end solution for obtaining variant fitness and error estimates from raw sequencing data. A key innovation of DiMSum is the use of an interpretable error model that captures the main sources of variability arising in DMS workflows, outperforming previous methods. DiMSum is available as an R/Bioconda package and provides summary reports to help researchers diagnose common DMS pathologies and take remedial steps in their analyses.

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MutationComputational BiologyDNA Mutational AnalysisHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingModels, GeneticMolecular Diagnostic TechniquesPolymerase Chain ReactionProteinsSoftwareProteinsBiocondaBioinformatic pipelineDeep mutational scanningR packageStatistical modelVariant effect prediction

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PMID32799905
PMCPMC7429474

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