PolITiGenomics

In the long awaited follow up to Breakin’ and Breakin’ 2, Ken Chen has released BreakDancer. As described in his Nature Methods article and a recent Genome Technology article, BreakDancer is not so much a movie as it is a bioinformatics program that can detect structural variation (insertions, deletions, inversions, and translocations) in genomes using paired-end read data. It can be used to detect structural variation in individual genomes, pools of genomes (like the low-coverage 1000 Genomes data), and tumor/normal samples with greater sensitivity and specificity than other structural variation detection algorithms.

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