De novo assembly of viral quasispecies using overlap graphs - LIRMM - Laboratoire d’Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier Accéder directement au contenu
Article Dans Une Revue Genome Research Année : 2017

De novo assembly of viral quasispecies using overlap graphs

Résumé

A viral quasispecies, the ensemble of viral strains populating an infected person, can be highly diverse. For optimal assessment of virulence, pathogenesis, and therapy selection, determining the haplotypes of the individual strains can play a key role. As many viruses are subject to high mutation and recombination rates, high-quality reference genomes are often not available at the time of a new disease outbreak. We present SAVAGE, a computational tool for reconstructing individual haplotypes of intra-host virus strains without the need for a high-quality reference genome. SAVAGE makes use of either FM-index–based data structures or ad hoc consensus reference sequence for constructing overlap graphs from patient sample data. In this over- lap graph, nodes represent reads and/or contigs, while edges reflect that two reads/contigs, based on sound statistical considerations, represent identical haplotypic sequence. Following an iterative scheme, a new overlap assembly algorithm that is based on the enumeration of statistically well-calibrated groups of reads/contigs then efficiently reconstructs the individual haplotypes from this overlap graph. In benchmark experiments on simulated and on real deep-coverage data, SAVAGE drastically outperforms generic de novo assemblers as well as the only specialized de novo viral quasispecies assembler available so far. When run on ad hoc consensus reference sequence, SAVAGE performs very favorably in comparison with state-of-the- art reference genome-guided tools. We also apply SAVAGE on two deep-coverage samples of patients infected by the Zika and the hepatitis C virus, respectively, which sheds light on the genetic structures of the respective viral quasispecies.
Fichier principal
Vignette du fichier
835.pdf (904.13 Ko) Télécharger le fichier
Origine : Fichiers éditeurs autorisés sur une archive ouverte
Loading...

Dates et versions

lirmm-01693168 , version 1 (25-01-2018)

Licence

Paternité - Pas d'utilisation commerciale

Identifiants

Citer

Jasmijn A Baaijens, Amal Zine El Aabidine, Eric Rivals, Alexander Schönhuth. De novo assembly of viral quasispecies using overlap graphs. Genome Research, 2017, 27 (5), pp.835-848. ⟨10.1101/gr.215038.116⟩. ⟨lirmm-01693168⟩
225 Consultations
191 Téléchargements

Altmetric

Partager

Gmail Facebook X LinkedIn More