The document describes an ensemble approach for detecting somatic mutations in impure cancer samples. It details the benchmark data set used from TCGA, which includes BAM files for a tumor sample that is 50% tumor cells and 50% normal cells mixed. It then outlines several commonly used somatic mutation callers - SomaticSniper, VarScan2, MuTect - and applies them to the data set. The results from the different callers are then combined using various filtering and consensus approaches to generate a high confidence list of somatic mutations for validation.