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Somatic CNV Workflow Tutorials

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    Laura Gauthier

    Hi Yuwei Bao,

    The sites file can be specific to your data (e.g. from HaplotypeCaller results) or based on common variation like the 1000 Genomes SNP file from the VQSR resource bundle: https://gatk.broadinstitute.org/hc/en-us/articles/360035890811-Resource-bundle

    As for the plots, they will be more informative once you get to the PlotModeledSegments part of the workflow: https://gatk.broadinstitute.org/hc/en-us/articles/360035890011#8  By then a lot of the noise will be smoothed out and the event boundaries will be more clear.  The remaining calls will also be more confident, while the copy ratios that do not have enough evidence to be called as amplifications will be called as copy neutral.

    The Germline workflow does output VCF files, which is not the case for somatic.  Traditionally that's been a difference in the file types preferred by the two different fields.

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