What is Variant Calling?
The computational step that finds places where a sample's sequence differs from a reference genome.
1 variant at position 1,042
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After alignment, she ran variant calling and flagged a candidate mutation for the tumor board notes.
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Both strips slide through; at one position a mismatch lights and a flag pins it.
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