title: PRISM: pair-read informed split-read mapping for base-pair level detection of insertion, deletion and structural variants.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The development of high-throughput sequencing technologies has enabled novel methods for detecting structural variants (SVs). Current methods are typically based on depth of coverage or pair-end mapping clusters. However, most of these only report an approximate location for each SV, rather than exact breakpoints.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We have developed pair-read informed split mapping (PRISM), a method that identifies SVs and their precise breakpoints from whole-genome resequencing data. PRISM uses a split-alignment approach informed by the mapping of paired-end reads, hence enabling breakpoint identification of multiple SV types, including arbitrary-sized inversions, deletions and tandem duplications. Comparisons to previous datasets and simulation experiments illustrate PRISM's high sensitivity, while PCR validations of PRISM results, including previously uncharacterized variants, indicate an overall precision of ~90%.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  PRISM is freely available at http://compbio.cs.toronto.edu/prism.
authors.affiliation: Center for Biomedical Informatics, School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150001, China. yue.jiang.hit@gmail.com
authors.forename: Yue
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Yadong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brudno
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D020029:Base Pairing; D002874:Chromosome Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry; D056914:Genomic Structural Variation; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods*; D059014:High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing; D006801:Humans; D054643:INDEL Mutation; D017384:Sequence Deletion
chemical_list: D004247:DNA