Somatic and Germline variant calling in ion torrent

Question

[inayat45shaikh]

Hello,

We have data of tumor (Tissue) and Normal (Blood) control from the same patients. We want to call somatic and germline variants in the same individual.

To achieve this, We aligned Tumor and normal sample each separately with hg19 and called variants. For identification of somatic mutations, we compare mutations of both sample together and, mutations occurring only in tumor sample was considered to be somatic. Now for germline detection, we considered all mutations identified in Normal sample.

Is this the Wright approach for Somatic and germline identification from the same individual? or any suggestions?

Answer 1

[TriS]

example of (some of the) tools to do what Sean mentioned are VarScan2, MuTect, Strelka and SomaticSniper

Answer 2

[Sean Davis]

Generally, you'll want to use a variant caller that considers the tumor and normal samples simultaneously. A google search for somatic variant caller will get you a starting list.

Answer 3

[inayat45shaikh]

Thanks Sean, for the response..... can you suggests some software's I have a question, are these softwares takes input raw files or aligned bam files, i dont know about the idea of calling variants from tumor and normal raw files, but i do know little bit about calling variants from aligned bam files. Please correct me if i am wrong, generally BAM file is used to call SOMATIC variants by searching variants only in tumor sample and not in the control and rest of the variants is considered as GERMLINE. if this is the case then how getting variants from each sample separately and then classify it into GERMLINE and SOMATIC, is different from the tumor and normal sample comparison simultaneously.?

Answer 4

[graeme.grimes]

I agree with Sean you need to use a joint variant caller.

You could use Thermo's own Ion Torrent, cloud based, Variant caller, Ion Reporter, https://ionreporter.thermofisher.com/ir/

Information on Tumor-Normal pair workflows can be found here. https://ionreporter.thermofisher.com/ionreporter/help/GUID-76DAA3C5-573B-4446-B467-A7185DF28C6D.html

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