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Tile-X: A vertex reordering approach for scalable long read assembly.

Oieswarya Bhowmik¹, Ananth Kalyanaraman¹

¹School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA.

|December 11, 2025

Summary

Tile-X reorders long DNA reads before assembly, significantly improving genome assembly quality and reducing computational demands. This novel approach enhances genome assembly efficiency and accuracy for large datasets.

Keywords:

biocomputational method genomic library genomics techniques in genetics

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Background:

Traditional long read assembly methods face challenges in ordering DNA reads, often delaying this step until after assembly.
This inherent difficulty increases computational burden and can impact assembly quality and scalability.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce Tile-X, a novel graph-theoretic approach for pre-assembly read ordering.
To demonstrate that upfront read ordering can enhance genome assembly efficiency, quality, and parallelization.

Main Methods:

Developed Tile-X, a method utilizing overlap graphs and vertex reordering techniques.
Explored standard reordering schemes (Tile-RCM, Tile-Metis, Tile-Grappolo) and a custom heuristic (Tile-Far) for read selection.
Implemented parallel partitioned assembly following read reordering.

Main Results:

Tile-X improved NGA50 (a measure of assembly quality) by up to 2.1× on PacBio HiFi datasets.
Achieved reductions in runtime (up to 3.5×) and memory usage (up to 3.3×).

Conclusions:

Pre-assembly read ordering using Tile-X offers significant advantages over traditional methods.
Tile-X enables more efficient, accurate, and scalable genome assembly, particularly for large datasets.