Hybrid metagenomic assembly enables high-resolution analysis of resistance determinants and mobile elements in human microbiomes

Autor: Kern Rei Chng, Janja Paliska Soldo, Barnaby Edward Young, Jia Yu Koh, Kalisvar Marimuthu, Niranjan Nagarajan, Denis Bertrand, James C. Shaw, Amanda Hui Qi Ng, Mile Šikić, Mirta Dvornicic, Chenhao Li, Chengxuan Tong, Oon Tek Ng, Timothy Barkham, Manesh Kalathiyappan, M. Senthil Kumar
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Nature Biotechnology. 37:937-944
ISSN: 1546-1696
1087-0156
DOI: 10.1038/s41587-019-0191-2
Popis: Characterization of microbiomes has been enabled by high-throughput metagenomic sequencing. However, existing methods are not designed to combine reads from short- and long-read technologies. We present a hybrid metagenomic assembler named OPERA-MS that integrates assembly-based metagenome clustering with repeat-aware, exact scaffolding to accurately assemble complex communities. Evaluation using defined in vitro and virtual gut microbiomes revealed that OPERA-MS assembles metagenomes with greater base pair accuracy than long-read (>5×; Canu), higher contiguity than short-read (~10× NGA50; MEGAHIT, IDBA-UD, metaSPAdes) and fewer assembly errors than non-metagenomic hybrid assemblers (2×; hybridSPAdes). OPERA-MS provides strain-resolved assembly in the presence of multiple genomes of the same species, high-quality reference genomes for rare species (
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