TY - DATA T1 - Supporting data for "CNVcaller: High efficient and Widely Applicable Software for Detecting Copy Number Variations in large Populations" AU - Chao, Li AU - Ting, Chen AU - Weiwei, Fu AU - Xihong, Wang AU - Yu, Jiang AU - Yudong, Cai AU - Zhuqing, Zheng DO - 10.5524/100380 UR - http://gigadb.org/dataset/100380 AB - The increasing amount of sequencing data available for a wide variety of species can be theoretically used for detecting copy number variations (CNVs) at the population level. However, the growing sample sizes and the divergent complexity of non-human genomes challenge the efficiency and robustness of current human-oriented CNV detection methods. Here, we present CNVcaller, a read-depth method for discovering CNVs in population sequencing data. The computational speed of CNVcaller was 1-2 orders of magnitude faster than CNVnator and Genome STRiP for complex genomes with thousands of unmapped scaffolds. CNV detection of 232 goats required only 1.4 days on a single compute node. Additionally, the Mendelian consistency of sheep trios indicated that CNVcaller mitigated the influence of high proportions of gaps and misassembled duplications in the non-human reference genome assembly. Furthermore, multiple evaluations using real sheep and human data indicated that CNVcaller achieved the best accuracy and sensitivity for detecting duplications. The fast, generalized detection algorithms included in CNVcaller overcome prior computational barriers for detecting CNVs in large-scale sequencing data with complex genomic structures. Therefore, CNVcaller promotes population genetic analyses of functional CNVs in more species. KW - Software KW - copy number variation KW - cnv KW - next-generation sequencing KW - ngs KW - read depth KW - population genetics KW - absolute copy number PY - 2017 PB - GigaScience Database LA - en ER -