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Fast, low-memory detection and localization of large, polymorphic inversions from SNPs.
Ronald J Nowling1, Fabian Fallas-Moya2, Amir Sadovnik2
1Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America.
Peerj
|February 4, 2022
Summary
This study introduces feature hashing to analyze large genomic inversions using single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data, significantly reducing memory usage for population genetics research.
Area of Science:
- Genomics
- Population Genetics
- Bioinformatics
Background:
- Large polymorphic inversions impact population structure and genotype maintenance.
- Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data and principal component analysis (PCA) are used for inversion detection.
- Analyzing large SNP datasets requires substantial memory, limiting study scope.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop a memory-efficient method for analyzing large genomic inversions from SNP data.
- To enable the analysis of larger datasets on standard computing hardware.
Main Methods:
- Feature hashing is employed to construct a feature matrix from VCF files containing SNPs.
- A streaming approach is utilized, avoiding the need to load the entire VCF file into memory.
Main Results:
- Memory usage was reduced by 97% in evaluations on Anopheles and Drosophila datasets.
- Inversion detection and localization accuracy remained high with minimal reduction.
Conclusions:
- The proposed method allows for efficient analysis of large inversion datasets on common computers.
- The open-source software Asaph implements this approach for public use.
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