SV-plaudit: A cloud-based framework for manually curating thousands of structural variants

Abstract

ABSTRACT SV-plaudit is a framework for rapidly curating structural variant (SVs) predictions. For each SV, we generate an image that visualizes the coverage and alignment signals from a set of samples. Images are uploaded to our cloud framework where users assess the quality of each image using a client-side web application. Reports can then be generated as a tab-delimited file or annotated VCF. As a proof of principle, nine researchers collaborated for one hour to evaluate 1,350 SVs each. We anticipate that SV-plaudit will become a standard step in variant calling pipelines and the crowd-sourced curation of other biological results. Code available at https://github.com/jbelyeu/SV-plaudit Demonstration video available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ono8kHMKxDs