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RELEASE NOTES FOR VARSCAN V2.3.1

09-August-2012

VarScan v2.3.1 includes several feature enhancements and bug fixes:
-Expanded VCF compatibility for filter, somaticFilter, and processSomatic commands
-Extended the optional VCF fields for mpileup2snp, mpileup2indel, and mpileup2cns output to include all VarScan fields
-Made it possible to provide a list of sample names for VCF output for mpileup2* commands.
-Expanded copyCaller functionality to filter by depth and output candidate homozygous deletions
-Fixed a bug in the indel-filtering functionality of the filter command
-Fixed European locale parsing errors in the copyCaller command

Note, if you use VarScan you should also employ the false-positive filter described in the VarScan 2 publication.
See the fpfilter.pl and fpfilter-help.txt files here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/varscan/files/scripts/
The filter requires the bam-readcount utility: https://github.com/genome/bam-readcount

LICENSE
VarScan 2 is licensed under the Non-Profit Open Software License 3.0 (NPOSL-3.0)
Source: VarScan.v2.3.1.readme.txt, updated 2012-08-09