Introduction

VarScan is a software tool developed at the Genome Institute at Washington University to detect variants in NGS data. VarScan employs a robust heuristic/statistic approach to call variants that meet desired thresholds for read depth, base quality, variant allele frequency, and statistical significance.

For more information, visit the official VarScan website.

Programming language: Java

Brief description: A software tool used to detect variants in NGS data.