Research Article

A Comparison of Variant Calling Pipelines Using Genome in a Bottle as a Reference

Table 5

Average Positive Predictive Value (PPV) and sensitivity for each tool.

ToolAverage SNV PPVAverage SNV sensitivityAverage indel PPVAverage indel sensitivity

Bowtie298.69%49.19%45.45%32.69%
BWA mem99.15%50.96%43.24%33.10%
BWA sampe99.09%50.85%45.31%31.30%
CUSHAW380.69%48.08%29.50%29.74%
MOSAIK98.51%35.79%52.95%28.63%
Novoalign99.17%50.18%44.55%31.70%
FreeBayes90.95%51.00%35.86%32.79%
GATK HaplotypeCaller97.05%51.03%43.17%31.79%
GATK UnifiedGenotyper97.93%50.77%52.12%31.57%
SAMtools mpileup94.99%50.76%39.15%31.30%
SNPSVM99.92%50.85%N/AN/A