modSaRa: a computationally efficient R package for CNV identification

Feifei Xiao, Yue Niu, Ning Hao, Yanxun Xu, Zhilin Jin, Heping Zhang

Abstract: Chromosomal copy number variation (CNV) refers to a polymorphism that a DNA segment presents deletion or duplication in the population. The computational algorithms developed to identify this type of variation are usually of high computational complexity. Here we present a user-friendly R package, modSaRa, designed to perform copy number variants identification. The package is developed based on a change-point based method with optimal computational complexity and desirable accuracy. The current version of modSaRa package is a comprehensive tool with integration of preprocessing steps and main CNV calling steps.