ExScalibur: A High-Performance Cloud-Enabled Suite for Whole Exome Germline and Somatic Mutation Identification

Riyue Bao; Kyle Hernandez; Lei Huang; Wenjun Kang; Elizabeth Bartom; Kenan Onel; Samuel Volchenboum; Jorge Andrade

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0135800

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ExScalibur: A High-Performance Cloud-Enabled Suite for Whole Exome Germline and Somatic Mutation Identification

Riyue Bao ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Riyue Bao, Kyle Hernandez

Affiliation Center for Research Informatics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Kyle Hernandez ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Riyue Bao, Kyle Hernandez

Affiliation Center for Research Informatics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Lei Huang,

Affiliation Center for Research Informatics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Wenjun Kang,

Affiliation Center for Research Informatics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Elizabeth Bartom,

Current address: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Affiliation Center for Research Informatics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Kenan Onel,

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Samuel Volchenboum ,

* E-mail: jandrade@bsd.uchicago.edu (JA); svolchen@peds.bsd.uchicago.edu (SV)

Affiliations Center for Research Informatics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Computation Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Jorge Andrade

* E-mail: jandrade@bsd.uchicago.edu (JA); svolchen@peds.bsd.uchicago.edu (SV)

Affiliation Center for Research Informatics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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ExScalibur: A High-Performance Cloud-Enabled Suite for Whole Exome Germline and Somatic Mutation Identification

Riyue Bao,
Kyle Hernandez,
Lei Huang,
Wenjun Kang,
Elizabeth Bartom,
Kenan Onel,
Samuel Volchenboum,
Jorge Andrade

Published: August 13, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0135800

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