Characterization and remediation of sample index swaps by non-redundant dual indexing on massively parallel sequencing platforms
Maura Costello, Mark Fleharty, Justin Abreu, Yossi Farjoun, Steven Ferriera, Laurie Holmes, Brian R. Granger, Lisa Green, Tom Howd, Tamara Mason, Gina Vicente, Michael Dasilva, Wendy Brodeur, Timothy DeSmet, Sheila Dodge, , Stacey Gabriel
The paper characterizes index swapping on Illumina sequencers and proposes dual indexing to mitigate its effects, showing varying swap rates across methods and sequencers.
BMC Genomics · May 8, 2018Peer-reviewedGenomics