Table 2 Number of false positive and false negative variants (SNPs and indels) identified in WGA-WGS samples when using the MAGMA pipeline for analysis of Illumina sequencing reads.

From: Droplet based whole genome amplification for sequencing minute amounts of purified Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA

  

Positive control

dMDA processed samples

Amount of Mtb DNA used as input for the dMDA process (pg)

 

0.1

0.5

1

5

Excluding complex regions

Total number of variants identified

1290

917

1363

1294

1293

Number of SNPs

1180

842

1252

1185

1180

Number of indels

110

75

111

109

113

Number of false negative* variants (%)

 

548 (59.76%)

41 (3.01%)

9 (0.70%)

1 (0.08%)

False negative SNPs

 

501 (54.63%)

34 (2.49%)

6 (0.45%)

1 (0.08%)

False negative indels

 

47 (5.13%)

7 (0.51%)

3 (0.23%)

0 (0%)

Number of false positive* variants (%)

 

175 (19.08%)

114 (8.36%)

13 (1.00%)

4 (0.31%)

False positive SNPs

 

163 (17.78%)

106 (7.78%)

11 (0.85%)

1 (0.08%)

False positive indels

 

12 (1.31%)

8 (0.59%)

2 (0.15%)

3 (0.23%)

Including complex regions

Total number variants identified

1655

1106

1688

1646

1657

Number of SNPs

1503

1014

1544

1502

1503

Number of indels

152

92

144

144

154

Number of false negative* variants (%)

 

758 (68.54%)

113 (6.69%)

54 (3.28%)

31(1.87%)

False negative SNPs

 

680 (61.48%)

90 (5.33%)

39 (2.37%)

23 (1.39%)

False negative indels

 

78 (7.05%)

23 (1.36%)

15 (0.91%)

8 (0.48%)

Number of false positive* variants (%)

 

209 (18.90%)

146 (8.65%)

45 (2.73%)

33 (1.99%)

False positive SNPs

 

191 (17.27%)

131 (7.76%)

38 (2.31%)

23 (1.39%)

False positive indels

 

18 (1.63%)

15 (0.89%)

7 (0.43%)

10 (0.60%)

  1. *In this analysis, all variants identified by WGS analysis of the positive control sample were considered to be true variants, false positive variants were defined as variants observed in the dMDA-WGS sample but not in the positive control; false negative variants were defined as variants observed in the positive control sample but not detected in the dMDA-WGS sample.