We are excited to share the release of Strand NGS v2.7. This new version comes with several exciting features and enhancements. Listed below are few major enhancements:
- Strand NGS v2.7 is upgraded to work with Java 1.8 and supports Mac EI Capitan OS
- New SNP caller feature ‘Low frequency SNP detection’ introduced
- Split alignment feature enhanced to support circular genome
- Additional pre-processing step ‘Split read realignment’ added to DNA-Seq workflow
- Speed of SNP annotation time for targeted re-seq experiments reduced by up to 95% with use of dbSNP sub-setting script. This new option enables user to create and save subset of dbSNP database with target regions of interest.
- ‘Find Damaging NS Variants’ feature improved to includes:
i. Predictions from MutationAssessor, FATHMM, MetaSVM, MetaLR
ii. Allele frequency information from ExAC, ESP in addition to 1000 genomes
iii. Filtering options using conservation scores from phyloP and phastcons - Improvements made to features like Local realignment, filtering, variant calling, jobs monitor, import/export options and many more.
To know more, please read the release notes. To enjoy these great features click on Update product from Help Menu.