Table 2.
Parameters and default values.
| Parameter | Default value or source | Description |
|---|---|---|
| f π | 0.1,0.7 | Vector of length J of initial sample fractions. Default assumes two samples, with low and high tumor content. |
| απ | 1.5 | Determines shape of prior distribution of Δf |
| π (N = 0) …π (N = 3), π (N ≥ 5) | 0.01,0.25,0.3,0.2,0.15,0.09 | Copy Number Priors |
| π (M = 0), π (M = 1), π (M ≥ 2) | 0.25,0.5,0.25 | Minor Allele Copy Number Priors |
| αseg | 1E-5 | Segmentation significance cutoff |
| ω | COSMIC | Number of cancer variants observed at the position |
| FA, FB | 1,000 Genomes and Exac | Population Allele Frequencies |
| ρSNV, ρindel | 1E-5, 1E-6 | Constant for calculating prior somatic |
| Fp−SNV, Fp−indel | 1E-5, 1E-6 | Population allele frequencies assigned to alleles not seen in input population |
| Fmax−somatic | 2E-5 | Maximum population allele frequency to be considered a possible somatic variant |
| 10 | Minimum mapping quality to count read | |
| 5 | Minimum base quality to count base | |
| T PASS | 0.8 | Minimum posterior probability of belonging to the PASS group to be called pass |
| T Somatic | 0.8 | Minimum posterior probability of variant is somatic to be called somatic |
| T Germline | 0.8 | Minimum posterior probability of variant is germline to be called germline |
| ξ | 3 | Number of parameter fitting iterations without new global minimum before stopping |
| λ | 5 | Weight of penalty for adding clonal variant group |