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Usage<br />

Validation and observed quality<br />

<strong>Applied</strong> <strong>Biosystems</strong> SOLiD 4 <strong>System</strong> <strong>SETS</strong> <strong>Software</strong> <strong>User</strong> <strong>Guide</strong><br />

Appendix D Advanced Topic: Primary Analysis<br />

Understanding quality values in the SOLiD <strong>System</strong> D<br />

Given a read with QVs, the expected number of errors in the read can<br />

be estimated. If the QV of the i-th call is qi, then the expected<br />

number of errors in the read is:<br />

is the predicted probability of error for the i-th call.<br />

This probability includes the fact that QVs are conventionally<br />

rounded to the nearest integer. The average error rate for this read is<br />

m/n, which can be converted into an overall quality score for the<br />

whole read.<br />

The conventional method of validating QVs involves computing a<br />

so-called observed quality for all the calls with a particular predicted<br />

quality in a set of control data. The following figure shows such a<br />

validation.<br />

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