Introduction

This repository contains all the custom scripts used in the evaluation and comparison of Katdetectr as described in the corresponding Technical Note (under submission).

Usage

All required files were deposited on Zenodo. These can directly be downloaded using zen4R and be used as input.

# Increase the timeout (due to some large files). 
options(timeout=5000)
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Introduction

katdetectr is an R package for the detection, characterization and visualization of localized hypermutated regions, often referred to as kataegis.

Please see the Application Note (under submission) for additional background, details and performance evaluations of katdetectr.

The general workflow of katdetectr can be summarized as follows:

1. Import of genomic variants; VCF, MAF or VRanges objects.
2. Detection ...