STR Analysis Viewer STR and STR Stutter Filter Settings
STR and STR filter setting determine the results that are displayed for a project sample in the STR Analysis viewer. Both types of settings can be applicable for all markers or alleles, or they can marker-specific or allele-specific.
• STR filter settings define the parameters for including a read in the analysis or excluding a read from the analysis.
• STR Stutter filter settings define the parameters for calling an allelic peak as either a true peak or a stutter (noise) peak.
When you open a sample in the STR Analysis viewer, the filter settings that were in place at the time that the project was saved determine the results that are initially displayed in the viewer, but you can edit these settings to better suit your working requirements. You specify the STR filter settings on the STR Filter tab on the Filter Settings dialog box and you specify the STR Stutter filter settings on the STR Stutter tab. Four options are available for specifying the filter settings for an STR analysis project.
• You can apply the default filter settings as-is.
• You can edit the default values for the filter settings, and then apply the settings.
• You can load previously saved filter settings, and then apply the settings as-is.
• You can load previously saved filter settings and edit any of the values, and then apply the settings.
When you load previously saved filter settings, you can load a settings file (*.settings) that affects the filter settings on both the STR Filter tab and the STR Stutter tab, or you can load a
tab-specific settings file (*.csv) that affects the settings on only one tab. See: