Ultrasome: efficient aberration caller for copy number studies of ultra-high resolution.

Nilsson, Björn; Johansson, Mikael; Al-Shahrour, Fatima; Carpenter, Anne E; Ebert, Benjamin L · Bioinformatics · 2009

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Abstract

Multimillion-probe microarrays allow detection of gains and losses of chromosomal material at unprecedented resolution. However, the data generated by these arrays are several-fold larger than data from earlier platforms, creating a need for efficient analysis tools that scale robustly with data size. We developed a new aberration caller, Ultrasome, that delineates genomic changes-of-interest with dramatically improved efficiency. Ultrasome shows near-linear computational complexity and processes latest generation copy number arrays about 10,000 times faster than standard methods with preserved analytic accuracy.

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