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Plaseval: a framework for comparing and evaluating plasmid detection tools.

Aniket Mane¹, Haley Sanderson², Aaron P White³

¹Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. amane@sfu.ca.

BMC Bioinformatics

|November 26, 2024

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PlasEval is a new tool for comparing plasmid binning methods, crucial for tracking antimicrobial resistance (AMR) gene spread. It evaluates tool performance and helps select the best method for specific bacterial genome datasets.

Area of Science:

Genomics and Bioinformatics
Microbial Genetics
Computational Biology

Background:

Plasmids are key vectors for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) gene transfer via horizontal gene transfer.
Accurately identifying plasmids in short-read bacterial genome assemblies is a significant computational challenge.
Plasmid binning methods aim to group DNA contigs from assemblies that likely belong to the same plasmid.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce PlasEval, a novel method for evaluating and comparing the performance of different plasmid binning tools.
To provide a quantitative dissimilarity measure to assess the agreement between plasmid bin sets.
To enable informed selection of plasmid binning tools based on dataset characteristics.

Main Methods:

PlasEval computes a repeat-aware dissimilarity score based on plasmid bin content and contig length.

Keywords:

Benchmarking Comparative genomics Draft assembly Plasmid prediction

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The dissimilarity score is decomposed to reveal qualitative differences between bin sets.

Benchmarked four leading plasmid binning tools (PlasBin-flow, HyAsP, gplas, MOB-recon) on 53 E. coli genomes.

Main Results:

Significant variations in performance were observed among the evaluated plasmid binning tools.
PlasEval effectively highlights discrepancies in how different tools reconstruct plasmid bins.
The benchmarking provides empirical data on the performance of current state-of-the-art methods.

Conclusions:

PlasEval is a valuable tool for assessing plasmid binning method performance and guiding tool selection.
Disagreements among methods underscore the ongoing need for improved plasmid binning strategies.
The findings suggest PlasEval can aid researchers in navigating the complexities of plasmid identification in bacterial genomics.