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ClairS-TO

Deep-learning tumor-only somatic small-variant caller for long reads, from the Clair3 team.

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CategorySequencing & variant calling
GitHubHKU-BAL/ClairS-TO
First public2025-03-10 (source)
Paperhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-64547-z · Nature Communications (2025)
LicenseBSD-3-Clause
PricingOpen source
Tags#variant-calling#somatic#long-read
Last checked2026-10-16

Specs

Sequencing platformOxford Nanopore, PacBio
TaskTumor-only somatic calling
Variant typesSNVs, indels
GitHub stars98
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