Chunk #50 — Materials and methods — Mutation detection procedure — Step 2a: filtering of candidate mutations

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Detection of low prevalence somatic mutations in solid tumors with ultra-deep targeted sequencing.

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We first applied some general filtering rules to the dataset to improve the computation time. Filtering out a position equates to calling it a non-mutated site. The filters used for analysis can be divided into four sequential rules.