“…However, when facing with relatively low-coverage-depth data, the false-positive rate of CNVnator is not easy to control due to the influence from artifacts such as GC-content bias and uneven distribution of reads, although the CNVnator method has dealt with the GC bias in a reasonable way. Other popular RD-based methods include ReadDepth (Miller et al, 2011), XCAVATOR (Magi et al, 2017), Wavedec (Cai et al, 2018), seqCNV (Chen et al, 2017), iCopyDAV (Dharanipragada et al, 2018), GROM-RD (Smith et al, 2015), CONDEL (Yuan et al, 2018a), CLImAT (Yu et al, 2014), CNV_IFTV (Yuan et al, 2019b), m-HMM (Wang et al, 2014), DCC (Yuan et al, 2018c), CNV-seq (Xie and Tammi, 2009), and FREEC (Boeva et al, 2012). The characteristics of the existing methods are listed in Table 1.…”