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Long Single-Molecule Reads Can Resolve the Complexity of the Influenza Virus Composed of Rare, Closely Related Mutant Variants

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Journal J Comput Biol
Date 2016 Dec 1
PMID 27901586
Citations 10
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As a result of a high rate of mutations and recombination events, an RNA-virus exists as a heterogeneous "swarm" of mutant variants. The long read length offered by single-molecule sequencing technologies allows each mutant variant to be sequenced in a single pass. However, high error rate limits the ability to reconstruct heterogeneous viral population composed of rare, related mutant variants. In this article, we present two single-nucleotide variants (2SNV), a method able to tolerate the high error rate of the single-molecule protocol and reconstruct mutant variants. 2SNV uses linkage between single-nucleotide variations to efficiently distinguish them from read errors. To benchmark the sensitivity of 2SNV, we performed a single-molecule sequencing experiment on a sample containing a titrated level of known viral mutant variants. Our method is able to accurately reconstruct clone with frequency of 0.2% and distinguish clones that differed in only two nucleotides distantly located on the genome. 2SNV outperforms existing methods for full-length viral mutant reconstruction.

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