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A comprehensive evaluation of long read error correction methods.

Haowen Zhang¹, Chirag Jain¹, Srinivas Aluru^2,3

¹School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, 30332, GA, USA.

|December 22, 2020

Summary

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Third-generation sequencing long reads offer genomic insights but have high error rates. This study evaluates error correction tools using real data, finding hybrid methods superior when short reads are available.

Keywords:

Benchmark Error correction Evaluation Long read

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Area of Science:

Genomics
Bioinformatics

Background:

Third-generation single molecule sequencing provides long reads, advancing genomics.
High error rates in long reads hinder accurate downstream analysis.
Existing evaluations of long read error correction tools lack comprehensiveness.

Purpose of the Study:

To categorize and review long read error correction methods.
To comprehensively evaluate existing long read error correction tools.
To provide guidelines for selecting appropriate error correction tools.

Main Methods:

Developed benchmark datasets using recent real sequencing data.
Established evaluation criteria including correction quality, runtime, and memory usage.
Assessed the impact of trimming, sequencing depth, and correction on genome assembly.

Main Results:

State-of-the-art tools achieve high correction quality despite high initial error rates.
Hybrid methods (using short reads) outperform non-hybrid methods in quality and resource usage.
Trimming and sequencing depth influence post-correction length distribution and genome coverage.

Conclusions:

Long read error correction is effective, with hybrid approaches offering advantages.
Practitioners should carefully select tools, considering read discarding and downstream effects.
Open-source evaluation code is available for reproducibility and further research.