I have few unmatched samples which have been sequenced with targeted amplicon sequencing using a custom library which covers a small segment of a chromosome (less than 300kb in length). The samples have been aligned to a BAM file and now I have to check for copy number variants.
I've used CNVkit to detect CN regions, however the docs mention that it's better if the sequenced regions span greater than million bases in length. I've also used ONCOCNV but it fails to detect any CN regions (although visually the shift in CN is visible).
Since only small region of the samples are covered, are there any other tools I can use, or do I have to filter the CN regions manually? Are there any papers which can help me out on how to manually filter out CN regions for the small segments?
Maybe you could have a look at COV'COP : git, publication.
I know that some people at my institute are using HMMcopy. I am not sure of its performance on targeted NGS. There are so many NGS copy number tools such that it's difficult to know which ones are best. The earlier ones that were released typically did not adjust for GC content, which renders their utility as minimal.