ContEst

ContEst is a tool (and method) for estimating the amount of cross-sample contamination in next generation sequencing data.  Using a Bayesian framework, contamination levels are estimated from array based genotypes and sequencing reads.

Contact: 
contest-help@broadinstitute.org
Publication Info: 
URL: 

http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/07/29/bioinformatics.btr446.abstract

Date: 
9/15/2011
Notes: 
Cibulskis, et al. ContEst: estimating cross-contamination of human samples in next-generation sequencing data. Bioinformatics. 2011 Sep 15;27(18):2601-2. Epub 2011 Jul 29.
Tool Info: 
URL: 

https://confluence.broadinstitute.org/display/CGATools/ContEst