Research Article
Mixed Sequence Reader: A Program for Analyzing DNA Sequences with Heterozygous Base Calling
Table 1
Feature comparison between MSR and other currently available DNA sequencing software.
| Feature/software | MSR | Indelligent | ShiftDetector | CHILD | PolyScan |
| Directly reads trace files (abi format) | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Maps sequence to reference database | Yes | No | No | No | No | Detects indels | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Decomposes 2 mixed sequences from a single trace | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Estimates the ratio of 2 mixed sequences in one trace | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Accepts NGS data | No | No | No | No | Yes |
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