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Saeedeh Akbari Rokn Abadi¹, Amirhossein Mohammadi¹, Somayyeh Koohi¹

¹Department of Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

|August 1, 2024

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We introduce PC-mer, a novel DNA/RNA sequence profiling method that reduces memory usage and significantly speeds up metagenomics classification. PC-mer offers improved accuracy, outperforming traditional k-mer methods.

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Area of Science:

Bioinformatics
Computational Biology
Genomics

Background:

K-mer-based methods are crucial for metagenomics data analysis but face performance and memory limitations.
Existing feature extraction techniques present bottlenecks in processing large-scale biological sequence data.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop an innovative feature extraction and sequence profiling method for DNA/RNA sequences.
To overcome the limitations of k-mer methods in metagenomics classification and analysis.

Main Methods:

Developed PC-mer, a novel method utilizing physicochemical properties of nucleotides for feature extraction.
Compared PC-mer with traditional k-mer profiling methods on various machine learning and computational approaches.

Main Results:

PC-mer reduces memory usage by a factor of 2k compared to k-mer methods.
Achieved over 1000x speedup in the training phase for metagenomics classification.
Demonstrated 100% accuracy in classifying samples at class, order, and family levels.
Improved genus-level classification accuracy by >14% (shotgun) and >5% (amplicon) datasets.

Conclusions:

PC-mer offers a significant advancement over k-mer methods for metagenomics data analysis.
The method provides substantial improvements in memory efficiency, speed, and classification accuracy.
Introduced two PC-mer-based tools for classifying and comparing metagenomics data, offering viable alternatives to k-mer tools.