From 1912b541148906ef35641a5103e71594c9dbbb7d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: helen-zhu Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 17:16:03 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] docs: updating DESCRIPTION --- DESCRIPTION | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION index 337932a..2216178 100644 --- a/DESCRIPTION +++ b/DESCRIPTION @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Authors@R: email = "PBoutros@mednet.ucla.edu", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-0553-7520")) ) -Description: A method that aggregates quality control metrics from multi-sample genomic experiments and performs outlier detection to nominate samples for exclusion. +Description: A method that analyzes quality control metrics from multi-sample genomic sequencing studies and nominates poor quality samples for exclusion. Per sample quality control data are transformed into z-scores and aggregated. The distribution of aggregated z-scores are modelled using parametric distributions. The parameters of the optimal model, selected either by goodness-of-fit statistics or user-designation, are used for outlier nomination. Two implementations of the Cosine Similarity Outlier Detection algorithm are provided with flexible parameters for dataset customization. Depends: R (>= 2.10) Imports: