Hi,
I've been mostly successful in adapting MuTect2 for use with amplicon-based panels. The one issue I continue to run in to is at the edges of the regions that we are targeting. I've done a great deal of parameter manipulation to try and get this to work properly, but no luck much of the time.
In the attached bamout shot, you can see the strong evidence for the variant, while the reassembly stage seems to have another idea. This particular example is a little farther from the end than most of the examples I could dig up.
I've seen bits and pieces of this same issue by looking through the forums, and have tried to employ any methods that have been discussed. As another idea, might it be worth creating synthetic reference-based sequences that overlap amplicon ends and trying to call variants with those spiked in to the input BAM file? If you have a good reason to think this won't work, I wouldn't want to sink a bunch of time in to it.
Thanks for any ideas, much appreciated!
-John