SomaticSniper: identification of somatic point mutations in whole genome sequencing data

Larson et al. (Tue,) studied this question.

www.synapsesocial.com/papers/69dbd9733d9adb00e76854a1 — DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btr665

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