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Table 15 Sensitivities of the four calling programs under different coverage cutoffs for dbSNPs and non-dbSNPs

From: Comparing a few SNP calling algorithms using low-coverage sequencing data

A. dbSNPs

Coverage cutoffs

SOAPsnp

Atlas-SNP2

GATK-UGT

SAMtools

≥ 3X

0.980

0.868

0.958

0.883

≥ 4X

0.960

0.960

0.938

0.858

≥ 5X

0.950

0.967

0.925

0.883

≥ 6X

0.940

0.950

0.910

0.870

≥ 7X

0.941

0.941

0.894

0.882

≥ 8X

0.937

0.937

0.886

0.873

≥ 9X

0.914

0.971

0.871

0.886

≥ 10X

0.923

0.985

0.862

0.815

B. non-dbSNPs

Coverage cutoffs

SOAPsnp

Atlas-SNP2

GATK-UGT

SAMtools

≥ 3X

0.912

0.546

0.837

0.570

≥ 4X

0.968

0.915

0.926

0.628

≥ 5X

0.959

0.946

0.919

0.676

≥ 6X

0.952

1.000

0.903

0.677

≥ 7X

0.942

1.000

0.885

0.750

≥ 8X

0.932

0.977

0.886

0.705

≥ 9X

0.930

0.977

0.884

0.674

≥ 10X

0.917

1.000

0.861

0.667