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BMC BIOINFORMATICS
卷 21, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12859-020-03772-3
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Somatic mutations; Mutational patterns; Mutational signatures
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资金
- Cancer Research UK Grand Challenge Award [C98/A24032]
- Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
- Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering
BackgroundPerforming a statistical test requires a null hypothesis. In cancer genomics, a key challenge is the fast generation of accurate somatic mutational landscapes that can be used as a realistic null hypothesis for making biological discoveries. ResultsHere we present SigProfilerSimulator, a powerful tool that is capable of simulating the mutational landscapes of thousands of cancer genomes at different resolutions within seconds. Applying SigProfilerSimulator to 2144 whole-genome sequenced cancers reveals: (i) that most doublet base substitutions are not due to two adjacent single base substitutions but likely occur as single genomic events; (ii) that an extended sequencing context of 2 bp is required to more completely capture the patterns of substitution mutational signatures in human cancer; (iii) information on false-positive discovery rate of commonly used bioinformatics tools for detecting driver genes.Conclusions SigProfilerSimulator's breadth of features allows one to construct a tailored null hypothesis and use it for evaluating the accuracy of other bioinformatics tools or for downstream statistical analysis for biological discoveries. SigProfilerSimulator is freely available at https://github.com/AlexandrovLab/SigProfilerSimulator with an extensive documentation at https://osf.io/usxjz/wiki/home/.
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