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Getting the variants out is where the analysis starts. What does the variation mean, which ones correlate with a detectable phenotype. Which ones are affecting
by jerven 11y ago
Getting the variants out is where the analysis starts. What does the variation mean, which ones correlate with a detectable phenotype. Which ones are affecting regulatory systems.
Genomics England is brilliant because it has good access to excellent NHS data which it will use to do a lot of analysis.
Which its not getting off the shelf but a lot of talented clincal+bio+informaticians are working hard on that.
Or in other words getting the variants to the human genome reference is just the start of the analysis not the end.
i.e. I am more worried about the end of the pipeline than the contents of them.
I suspected as much on the 1,2,3 level. But even 2 is not really fixed yet. There are great off the shelf tools but even the concept of variation calling against a reference linear genome is not perfect yet especially with the alt_loci business. Which driving the variation graph work in the GA4GH projects.