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CHOP: haplotype-aware path indexing in population graphs.

Tom Mokveld¹, Jasper Linthorst^1,2, Zaid Al-Ars³

¹Delft Bioinformatics Lab, Delft University of Technology, Van Mourik Broekmanweg 6, Delft, 2628 XE, The Netherlands.

|March 13, 2020

Summary

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We introduce CHOP, a novel method for efficiently aligning sequencing reads to graph-based reference genomes. CHOP prevents combinatorial explosion by constraining the search space using haplotype information.

Keywords:

Graph-based reference genomes Haplotype-aware graph indexes Read alignment

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Area of Science:

Bioinformatics
Computational Biology
Genomics

Background:

Graph-based reference genomes are crucial for modern genomics.
Aligning sequencing reads to these graphs is computationally challenging due to large search spaces.
Existing methods often rely on heuristic filtering, which can be suboptimal.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a method that efficiently constrains the search space for read alignment in graph genomes.
To prevent the combinatorial explosion of search paths caused by variations.
To enable practical application of graph-based genomes for large-scale datasets.

Main Methods:

CHOP (Constrained Haplotype-Optimized Pipelining) method.
Exploits haplotype information to bound the search space.
Applied to a graph genome representing all 80 million variants from the 1000 Genomes Project.

Main Results:

CHOP successfully constrains the search space to the number of haplotypes.
Demonstrates scalability on large and complex genomic datasets.
Prevents the combinatorial explosion typically encountered in graph genome alignment.

Conclusions:

CHOP offers an efficient and scalable solution for read alignment to graph genomes.
Enables the practical utility of complex, variation-aware reference genomes.
Facilitates accurate genomic analysis across diverse human populations.