Saturday 14 April 2012

IDBA-UD: A de Novo Assembler for Single-Cell and Metagenomic Sequencing Data with Highly Uneven Depth.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22495754
Bioinformatics. 2012 Apr 11. [Epub ahead of print]

IDBA-UD: A de Novo Assembler for Single-Cell and Metagenomic Sequencing Data with Highly Uneven Depth.

Source

Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong.

Abstract

MOTIVATION:

Next-generation sequencing allows us to sequence reads from a microbial environment using single cell sequencing or metagenomic sequencing technologies. However, both technologies suffer from the problem that sequencing depth of different regions of a genome or genomes from different species are highly uneven. Most existing genome assemblers usually have an assumption that sequencing depths are even. These assemblers fail to construct correct long contigs.

RESULTS:

We introduce the IDBA-UD algorithm that based on the de Bruijn graph approach for assembling reads from single cell sequencing or metagenomic sequencing technologies with uneven sequencing depths. Several non-trivial techniques have been employed to tackle the problems. Instead of using a simple threshold, we use multiple depth relative thresholds to remove erroneous k-mers in both low-depth and high-depth regions. The technique of local assembly with paired-end information is used to solve the branch problem of low-depth short repeat regions. To speed up the process, an error correction step is conducted to correct reads of high-depth regions that can be aligned to high confident contigs. Comparison of the performances of IDBA-UD and existing assemblers (Velvet, Velvet-SC, SOAPdenovo and Meta-IDBA) for different datasets shows that IDBA-UD can reconstruct longer contigs with higher accuracy.

AVAILABILITY:

The IDBA-UD toolkit is available at our website http://www.cs.hku.hk/~alse/idba_ud.

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