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. 2019 Mar 20;9:119. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2019.00119

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
Qminm 10 Minimum mapping quality to count read
Qminb 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