MOTIVATION: Reliable identification of expressed somatic insertions/deletions (indels) is an unmet need due to artifacts generated in PCR-based RNA-Seq library preparation and the lack of normal RNA-Seq data, presenting analytical challenges for discovery of somatic indels in tumor transcriptome. RESULTS: We present RNAIndel, a tool for predicting somatic, germline and artifact indels from tumor RNA-Seq data. RNAIndel leverages features derived from indel sequence context and biological effect in a machine-learning framework. Except for tumor samples with microsatellite instability, RNAIndel robustly predicts 88-100% of somatic indels in five diverse test datasets of pediatric and adult cancers, even recovering subclonal (VAF range 0.01-0.15) driver indels missed by targeted deep-sequencing, outperforming the current best-practice for RNA-Seq variant calling which had 57% sensitivity but with 14 times more false positives. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: RNAIndel is freely available at https://github.com/stjude/RNAIndel. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
MOTIVATION: Reliable identification of expressed somatic insertions/deletions (indels) is an unmet need due to artifacts generated in PCR-based RNA-Seq library preparation and the lack of normal RNA-Seq data, presenting analytical challenges for discovery of somatic indels in tumor transcriptome. RESULTS: We present RNAIndel, a tool for predicting somatic, germline and artifact indels from tumor RNA-Seq data. RNAIndel leverages features derived from indel sequence context and biological effect in a machine-learning framework. Except for tumor samples with microsatellite instability, RNAIndel robustly predicts 88-100% of somatic indels in five diverse test datasets of pediatric and adult cancers, even recovering subclonal (VAF range 0.01-0.15) driver indels missed by targeted deep-sequencing, outperforming the current best-practice for RNA-Seq variant calling which had 57% sensitivity but with 14 times more false positives. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: RNAIndel is freely available at https://github.com/stjude/RNAIndel. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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