Skip to main content

Table 4 The location of the regions improved by 25% reference bias when using LevioSAM 2 compared to the direct-to-GRC method. A biased region was “Near Centromere” if it locates within 500 kbp of a region annotated as centromeric by the UCSC genome browser

From: Measuring, visualizing, and diagnosing reference bias with biastools

bases improved

Total

Near centromere

Away from centromere

All regions

6,132,182

2,304,633 (38%)

3,827,549 (62%)

Regions > 1000 bp

5,631,958

2,242,093 (40%)

3,389,865 (60%)