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Virus Pop-Expanding Viral Databases by Protein Sequence Simulation.

Julia Kende¹, Massimiliano Bonomi², Sarah Temmam³

¹Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Hub, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, F-75015 Paris, France.

|June 28, 2023

Summary

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Virus Pop simulates realistic viral protein sequences to improve metagenomic tools. This pipeline enhances viral discovery by challenging taxonomic assignation and expanding databases for detecting novel viruses.

Keywords:

amino acid substitution rates database phylogenomics sequence evolution sequence simulation

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Area of Science:

Virology
Bioinformatics
Computational Biology

Background:

Metagenomic tools are crucial for identifying unknown viruses but are typically evaluated using known sequences.
Current evaluation methods limit the assessment of tools' ability to detect novel or distantly related viruses.
Expanding public databases with realistic simulated sequences can improve the detection of viruses with limited representation.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce Virus Pop, a novel pipeline for simulating realistic protein sequences and phylogenetic trees.
To enhance the benchmarking of metagenomic tools for viral discovery.
To improve the detection of novel and distantly related viruses by expanding sequence databases.

Main Methods:

Virus Pop simulates protein sequences with domain-specific substitution rate variations.
The pipeline infers ancestral sequences and inserts new simulated sequences into phylogenetic trees.
The tool was validated using the spike protein of sarbecoviruses and for detecting a novel human circovirus.

Main Results:

Virus Pop generates simulated sequences that accurately reflect the structural and functional properties of real viral proteins.
Simulated sequences closely matched real protein sequences, including those not present in public databases.
The pipeline successfully aided in identifying a novel pathogenic human circovirus.

Conclusions:

Virus Pop provides a valuable method for challenging and improving taxonomic assignation tools in metagenomics.
The pipeline can enhance viral databases, leading to better detection of distant and previously unknown viruses.
Virus Pop contributes to characterizing the "dark matter" of metagenomic data.