Evaluation and Validation of De Novo and Hybrid Assembly Techniques to Derive High-quality Genome Sequences

Overview

Journal Bioinformatics

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Biology

Date 2014 Jun 16

PMID 24930142

Citations 60

Authors

Sagar M Utturkar

Dawn M Klingeman

Miriam L Land

Christopher W Schadt

Mitchel J Doktycz

Dale A Pelletier

Steven D Brown

Affiliations

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Abstract

Motivation: To assess the potential of different types of sequence data combined with de novo and hybrid assembly approaches to improve existing draft genome sequences.

Results: Illumina, 454 and PacBio sequencing technologies were used to generate de novo and hybrid genome assemblies for four different bacteria, which were assessed for quality using summary statistics (e.g. number of contigs, N50) and in silico evaluation tools. Differences in predictions of multiple copies of rDNA operons for each respective bacterium were evaluated by PCR and Sanger sequencing, and then the validated results were applied as an additional criterion to rank assemblies. In general, assemblies using longer PacBio reads were better able to resolve repetitive regions. In this study, the combination of Illumina and PacBio sequence data assembled through the ALLPATHS-LG algorithm gave the best summary statistics and most accurate rDNA operon number predictions. This study will aid others looking to improve existing draft genome assemblies.

Availability And Implementation: All assembly tools except CLC Genomics Workbench are freely available under GNU General Public License.

Contact: brownsd@ornl.gov

Supplementary Information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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