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Wilfried Verachtert

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Research Focus:variant calling· 2 Assay:whole-exome sequencing· 2 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 2 Approach:benchmark study· 1 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Charlotte HerzeeliD· 3 shared Pascal CostanzaiD· 3 shared Dries DecapiD· 2 shared Jan FostieriD· 2 shared Roel WuytsiD· 1 shared

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Multithreaded variant calling in elPrep 5

Charlotte Herzeel, Pascal Costanza, Dries Decap, Jan Fostier, Roel Wuyts, Wilfried Verachtert

elPrep 5 improves variant calling speed by parallelizing the GATK Best Practices pipeline, achieving 8-16x faster runtime than GATK 4 on whole-exome and whole-genome data.

PLoS ONE · Feb 4, 2021Peer-reviewedBioinformatics

A comparison of three programming languages for a full-fledged next-generation sequencing tool

Pascal Costanza, Charlotte Herzeel, Wilfried Verachtert

The paper benchmarks three programming languages for implementing a SAM/BAM file processing tool, finding Go offers the best balance of performance and memory use.

BMC Bioinformatics · Jun 3, 2019Peer-reviewedBioinformatics

elPrep: A multithreaded framework for sequence analysis

Charlotte Herzeel, Pascal Costanza, Dries Decap, Jan Fostier, Wilfried Verachtert

elPrep 4 is a multithreaded framework for processing sequence alignment files, offering faster and more efficient variant calling preparation steps compared to GATK 4, SAMtools, and Picard.

PLoS ONE · Feb 13, 2019Peer-reviewedBioinformatics