nf-core/deepvariant

Deep Variant as a Nextflow pipeline

A Nextflow pipeline for running the Google DeepVariant variant caller.

What is DeepVariant and why in Nextflow?

The Google Brain Team in December 2017 released a Variant Caller based on DeepLearning: DeepVariant.

In practice, DeepVariant first builds images based on the BAM file, then it uses a DeepLearning image recognition approach to obtain the variants and eventually it converts the output of the prediction in the standard VCF format. ...