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Hybrid De Novo Genome Assembly for the Generation of Complete Genomes of Urinary Bacteria using Short- and Long-read Sequencing Technologies
Published on: August 20, 2021
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DIME: a novel framework for de novo metagenomic sequence assembly
Xuan Guo1, Ning Yu, Xiaojun Ding
11 Departments of Computer Science and Biology, Georgia State University , Atlanta, Georgia .
Summary
A new metagenomic assembly framework, DIME (DIvide, conquer, and MErge), improves accuracy and efficiency for large datasets. It reconstructs more bases and yields higher quality assemblies, even with low-coverage data.
Area of Science:
- Bioinformatics
- Computational Biology
- Genomics
Background:
- Next-generation sequencing platforms have increased metagenomic data size and decreased analysis costs.
- Existing assemblers struggle with large datasets, particularly those with low coverage and many non-overlapping contigs, leading to a trade-off between contig noise and sequence length.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop a novel metagenomic sequence assembly framework, DIME, addressing limitations in accuracy and efficiency for large-scale projects.
- To provide MapReduce implementations of DIME for parallel processing on the Apache Hadoop platform.
Main Methods:
- Developed the DIME (DIvide, conquer, and MErge) assembly framework.
- Implemented DIME using MapReduce on Apache Hadoop (DIME-cap3 and DIME-genovo).
- Compared DIME against five popular assemblers (Cap3, Genovo, MetaVelvet, SOAPdenovo, SPAdes) on synthetic and real metagenomic datasets.
Main Results:
- DIME accurately partitions sequence reads.
- DIME reconstructs more bases and generates higher quality consensus sequences.
- DIME achieved higher assembly scores (corrected N50, BLAST-score-per-base) compared to other tools.
- DIME demonstrated near-theoretical speed-up on the Hadoop platform.
Conclusions:
- DIME offers significant improvements in metagenomic assembly, enhancing both accuracy and efficiency.
- The framework is robust to decreasing sequence coverage and performs well across various sequence abundances.
- DIME is a promising tool for analyzing large-scale metagenomic datasets.
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