ContEst 1.0.24530 – Estimate Contamination Level in Sequencing data

ContEst 1.0.24530

:: DESCRIPTION

ContEst is a tool (and method) for estimating the amount of cross-sample contamination in next generation sequencing data.  Using a Bayesian framework, contamination levels are estimated from array based genotypes and sequencing reads.

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::DEVELOPER

The Cancer Genome Analysis (CGA) group

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/A

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Linux / Mac OsX / Windows
  • Java 

:: DOWNLOAD

  ContEst

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation

Kristian Cibulskis, Aaron McKenna, Tim Fennel, Eric Banks, Mark DePristo and Gad Getz
ContEst: estimating cross-contamination of human samples in next-generation sequencing data
Bioinformatics (2011) 27 (18): 2601-2602.

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