ONTdeCIPHER: an amplicon-based nanopore sequencing pipeline for tracking pathogen variants

Autor: Emira Cherif, Fatou Seck Thiam, Mohammad Salma, Georgina Rivera-Ingraham, Fabienne Justy, Theo Deremarque, Damien Breugnot, Jean-Claude Doudou, Rodolphe Elie Gozlan, Marine Combe
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Bioinformatics. 38:2033-2035
ISSN: 1367-4811
1367-4803
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac043
Popis: Motivation Amplicon-based nanopore sequencing is increasingly used for molecular surveillance during epidemics (e.g. ZIKA, EBOLA) or pandemics (e.g. SARS-CoV-2). However, there is still a lack of versatile and easy-to-use tools that allow users with minimal bioinformatics skills to perform the main steps of downstream analysis, from quality testing to SNPs effect to phylogenetic analysis. Results Here, we present ONTdeCIPHER, an amplicon-based Oxford Nanopore Technology sequencing pipeline to analyze the genetic diversity of SARS-CoV-2 and other pathogens. Our pipeline integrates 13 bioinformatics tools. With a single command line and a simple configuration file, users can pre-process their data and obtain the sequencing statistics, reconstruct the consensus genome, identify variants and their effects for each viral isolate, infer lineage and, finally perform multi-sequence alignments and phylogenetic analyses. Availability and implementation ONTdeCIPHER is available at https://github.com/emiracherif/ONTdeCIPHER. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Databáze: OpenAIRE