FamSeq: A Variant Calling Program for Family-Based Sequencing Data Using Graphics Processing Units

Gang Peng; Yu Fan; Wenyi Wang

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003880

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FamSeq: A Variant Calling Program for Family-Based Sequencing Data Using Graphics Processing Units

Gang Peng,

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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Yu Fan,

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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Wenyi Wang

* E-mail: wwang7@mdanderson.org

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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FamSeq: A Variant Calling Program for Family-Based Sequencing Data Using Graphics Processing Units

Gang Peng,
Yu Fan,
Wenyi Wang

Published: October 30, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003880

About the Authors

Gang Peng

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yu Fan

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Wenyi Wang

* E-mail: wwang7@mdanderson.org

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WW. Performed the experiments: GP YF WW. Analyzed the data: GP WW. Wrote the paper: GP YF WW.

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