New Tools

We are providing a flexible end-to-end solution for analyzing Unique Molecular Indices (UMI) data. For this, we are accelerating the fgbio pipeline. The Clara Parabricks fgbio solution can be run with a single command or as individual steps.

Annotates existing BAM files with UMIs (Unique Molecular Indices) from a separate FASTQ file.

Sort a BAM file. Five sort modes are supported:

  • Coordinate sort (Picard-compatible)

  • Coordinate sort (fgbio-compatible)

  • Queryname sort (Picard-compatible)

  • Queryname sort (fgbio-compatible)

  • Template coordinate sort (fgbio-compatible)

Calls consensus sequences from reads with the same unique molecular tag.

Groups reads together that appear to have come from the same original molecule.

Adds and/or fixes mate information on paired-end reads.

We are also adding the following new tools in this release:

GPU-accelerated DeepTrio for calling de novo variants. This is an accelerated version of Google deepvariant team's deeptrio.

Quantify abundances of transcripts from bulk and single-cell RNA-Seq data.

The MuSE somatic caller tool has been added to the Parabricks toolkit and has a 10x acceleration compared to its original implementation. Muse is the fifth somatic caller in Parabricks. Muse utilizes a novel approach to mutation calling based on the F81 Markov substitution model for molecular evolution, which models the evolution of the reference allele to the allelic composition of the matched tumor and normal tissue at each genomic locus. You can read more here.

Generate a index for PON file, prerequisite of calling "--pon" during mutect.

Annotate variants based on a Panel of Normals (PON) file, modify the "INFO" field of input vcf file. This is the post process of calling "--pon" in mutect. After the mutect2 vcf is generated, this is a needed step if your are using PON.

Annotate variants in a VCF file with VCF or GTF databases.

Run votebasedvcfmerger to create union and intersection VCFs based on a minimum number of variant callers supporting a variant. This was previously called vbvm.

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