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CompMap: a reference-based compression program to speed up read mapping to related reference sequences.

Zexuan Zhu¹, Linsen Li¹, Yongpeng Zhang¹

¹College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China and Infectious Disease Initiative, The Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.

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CompMap, a novel reference-based compression program, significantly reduces read mapping time and memory usage for next-generation sequencing data. This accelerates pathogen discovery and metagenomic classification by mapping to a representative sequence with high accuracy.

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Area of Science:

Bioinformatics
Computational Biology
Genomics

Background:

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) data analysis is crucial for pathogen discovery and metagenomic classification.
Read mapping is a computationally intensive step, often dominating analysis time and memory requirements.
Increasing reference sequence size and repeat content exacerbate these computational challenges.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a novel computational method, CompMap, to accelerate the read mapping process in NGS data analysis.
To reduce the runtime and memory footprint associated with mapping large datasets to extensive reference sequences.
To maintain high accuracy in mapping results while improving computational efficiency.

Main Methods:

CompMap utilizes a reference-based compression approach to generate a non-redundant representative sequence.
The program is implemented in C for efficient performance.
Reads are mapped to the compressed representative sequence, and original mappings are recovered with high fidelity.

Main Results:

CompMap significantly reduces read mapping time and memory usage compared to traditional methods.
The generated representative sequence allows for faster and more memory-efficient mapping.
High accuracy in recovering original read mappings to the full reference set was demonstrated.

Conclusions:

CompMap offers a substantial improvement in the efficiency of read mapping for NGS data.
The method effectively addresses the computational bottlenecks in pathogen discovery and metagenomic classification.
This approach enables faster and more scalable analysis of large-scale genomic datasets.