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  • Computational biology
  • Bioinformatics
  • Evolutionary biology

Background:

  • Taxonomic sequence classification is crucial for metagenomics and evolutionary studies.
  • Existing compressed indexing methods like the r-index face scalability challenges with large taxonomic datasets.
  • Current data structures linking sequences to clades require significant space, particularly with numerous distinct genomes (d).

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel compression method for taxonomic sequence classification that overcomes the limitations of existing approaches.
  • To introduce a space-efficient data structure that scales better with the number of distinct genomes.
  • To implement and evaluate a tool for fast and accurate taxonomic classification of sequencing reads.

Main Methods:

  • Proposed cliff compression, a method reducing space complexity from O(rd) to an expected O(r log d) words.
  • Developed an open-source tool named Cliffy for taxonomic classification using the compressed index.
  • Utilized the SILVA 16S rRNA gene database for indexing and testing.

Main Results:

  • Cliff compression achieved over a 250x size reduction on the SILVA 16S rRNA gene database.
  • Cliffy demonstrated higher read-level accuracy (11-18% improvement) compared to Kraken2 on simulated 16S rRNA reads.
  • Cliffy provided more accurate clade abundance predictions than Kraken2 and Bracken.

Conclusions:

  • Cliff compression offers a significant advancement in space economy for taxonomic indexing.
  • Cliffy provides a fast, accurate, and space-efficient tool for taxonomic classification, outperforming existing methods.
  • Full-text indexes, as utilized by Cliffy, offer superior precision for taxonomic classification compared to k-mer based indexes.