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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 29.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Biosci. 2012 Jun 29;5(1):3–25. doi: 10.1007/s12561-012-9067-4

Table 2.

Available software for SNP detection or genotype calling from MPS data

Method Website Method category Reference
VarScan http://varscan.sourceforge.net/ SNP detection [62]
ProbHD http://seqanswers.com/wiki/ProbHD SNP detection [64]
Atlas-SNP2 http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/cascade-tech-software_atlas_snp-ti.hgsc SNP detection [54]
NA ftp://ftp.sanger.ac.uk/pub/pathogens/pools/ allele frequency estimation [72]
NA http://www.genetics.org/content/suppl/2009/03/16/genetics.109.100479.DC1 allele frequency estimation [73]
MapNext http://evolution.sysu.edu.cn/english/software/mapnext.htm allele frequency estimation [74]
testassoc http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/12/231/additional allele frequency estimation [75]
SNVer http://snver.sourceforge.net/ SNP detection and allele frequency estimation [76]
samtools http://samtools.sourceforge.net/ genotype calling (both SS & MS-SS) [31]
GATK http://www.broadinstitute.org/gsa/wiki/index.php/The_Genome_Analysis_Toolkit genotype calling (both SS & MS-SS) [50]
SOAP-SNP http://soap.genomics.org.cn/soapsnp.html genotype calling (both SS & MS-SS) [78]
glfMultiples http://genome.sph.umich.edu/wiki/GlfMultiples genotype calling (both SS & MS-SS) [87]
SNIP-Seq http://polymorphism.scripps.edu/~vbansal/software/SNIP-Seq/ MS-SS genotype calling [80]
SeqEM http://hihg.med.miami.edu/software-download/seqem-version-1.0 MS-SS genotype calling [83]
MARGARITA + QCALL ftp://ftp.sanger.ac.uk/pub/rd/QCALL MS-LD genotype calling [84, 85]
GATK + BEAGLE http://faculty.washington.edu/browning/beagle/beagle.html MS-LD genotype calling [50, 86]
thunder http://genome.sph.umich.edu/wiki/Thunder MS-LD genotype calling [87]
SNPTools http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/cascade-tech-software_snp_tools-ti.hgsc MS-LD genotype calling NA