Structural Variants

Generated on 2026-05-07

Structural Variants

The DRAGEN Structural Variant (SV) caller identifies large insertions, deletions and genomic arrangements from mapped DNA reads. For details, refer to the DRAGEN user guide for structural variant calling.

DRAGEN: DRAGEN 4.5.4 | Truthset: HG002 T2TQ100-v1.1-v0.018 on Truvari v4.2.2 | Reference: GRCh38

SV WGS historical comparison table (click to expand)
Method
Recall
Precision
F1-score

DRAGEN 4.5.4

0.880

0.969

0.922

DRAGEN 4.4

0.807

0.963

0.878

DRAGEN 4.3

0.511

0.953

0.665

Comparison with previous DRAGEN versions

SV WGS accuracy comparison across DRAGEN versions

Mobile Element Insertions

The general purpose SV routine can detect Mobile Element Insertions (MEIs) with assembled inserted sequences like other regular insertions. If missed by the general purpose SV routine, MEIs will be rescued by the MEI specific routine based on similarity between assembled contigs and known sequences in the MEI catalog.

Recall for HG002 NIST v0.6 MEI (Wittyer v0.5.4.1):

SV MEI historical comparison table (click to expand)
Method
Recall

DRAGEN 4.5.4

0.985

DRAGEN 4.4

0.906

DRAGEN 4.3

0.885

Comparison with previous DRAGEN versions

SV MEI recall trend across DRAGEN versions

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