Sentieon DNA pipeline for variant detection - Software-only solution, over 20× faster than GATK 3.3 with identical results

Jessica A. Weber, Rafael Aldana, Brendan D. Gallagher, Jeremy S. Edwards

2016 · 10 citations · 0 references

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Sentieon DNA Software is a suite of tools that allow running DNA sequencing secondary analysis pipelines. The Sentieon DNA Software produces results identical to the Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK) Best Practice Workflow using HaplotypeCaller, with more than 20x increase in processing speed on the same hardware. This paper presents a benchmark analysis of both speed comparison and output concordance between using GATK and Sentieon DNA software on publically available datasets from the 100 genomes database.