Pindel: a pattern growth approach to detect break points of large deletions and medium sized insertions from paired-end short reads

Motivation: There is a strong demand in the genomic community to develop effective algorithms to reliably identify genomic variants. Indel detection using next-gen data is difficult and identification of long structural variations is extremely challenging. Results: We present Pindel, a pattern growth approach, to detect breakpoints of large deletions and medium-sized insertions from paired-end short reads. We use both simulated reads and real data to demonstrate the efficiency of the computer program and accuracy of the results. Availability: The binary code and a short user manual can be freely downloaded from http://www.ebi.ac.uk/∼kye/pindel/. Contact: k.ye@lumc.nl; zn1@sanger.ac.uk