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Table 4 Comparison of four variant callers for calling rare variants

From: A study on fast calling variants from next-generation sequencing data using decision tree

AF

 

benchmark

(high-conf)

Fuwa

Platypus

GATK-UG

GATK-HC

SAMtools

≤5%

count

282,869

207,098

201,577

210,190

209,119

207,187

ratio (%)

–

73.21

71.26

74.31

73.93

73.24

≤1%

count

128,661

80,895

78,908

81,758

81,417

80,956

ratio (%)

–

62.87

61.33

63.55

63.28

62.92

≤0.5%

count

92,309

55,630

54,280

56,137

55,928

55,646

ratio (%)

–

60.26

58.80

60.81

60.59

60.28

≤0.1%

count

37,563

23,695

23,112

23,863

23,795

23,688

ratio (%)

–

63.08

61.53

63.53

63.35

63.06

  1. AF allele frequency