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      A review of methods and databases for metagenomic classification and assembly.

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          Microbiome research has grown rapidly over the past decade, with a proliferation of new methods that seek to make sense of large, complex data sets. Here, we survey two of the primary types of methods for analyzing microbiome data: read classification and metagenomic assembly, and we review some of the challenges facing these methods. All of the methods rely on public genome databases, and we also discuss the content of these databases and how their quality has a direct impact on our ability to interpret a microbiome sample.

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          Bracken: estimating species abundance in metagenomics data

          Metagenomic experiments attempt to characterize microbial communities using high-throughput DNA sequencing. Identification of the microorganisms in a sample provides information about the genetic profile, population structure, and role of microorganisms within an environment. Until recently, most metagenomics studies focused on high-level characterization at the level of phyla, or alternatively sequenced the 16S ribosomal RNA gene that is present in bacterial species. As the cost of sequencing has fallen, though, metagenomics experiments have increasingly used unbiased shotgun sequencing to capture all the organisms in a sample. This approach requires a method for estimating abundance directly from the raw read data. Here we describe a fast, accurate new method that computes the abundance at the species level using the reads collected in a metagenomics experiment. Bracken (Bayesian Reestimation of Abundance after Classification with KrakEN) uses the taxonomic assignments made by Kraken, a very fast read-level classifier, along with information about the genomes themselves to estimate abundance at the species level, the genus level, or above. We demonstrate that Bracken can produce accurate species- and genus-level abundance estimates even when a sample contains multiple near-identical species.
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            Fast algorithms for large-scale genome alignment and comparison.

            We describe a suffix-tree algorithm that can align the entire genome sequences of eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms with minimal use of computer time and memory. The new system, MUMmer 2, runs three times faster while using one-third as much memory as the original MUMmer system. It has been used successfully to align the entire human and mouse genomes to each other, and to align numerous smaller eukaryotic and prokaryotic genomes. A new module permits the alignment of multiple DNA sequence fragments, which has proven valuable in the comparison of incomplete genome sequences. We also describe a method to align more distantly related genomes by detecting protein sequence homology. This extension to MUMmer aligns two genomes after translating the sequence in all six reading frames, extracts all matching protein sequences and then clusters together matches. This method has been applied to both incomplete and complete genome sequences in order to detect regions of conserved synteny, in which multiple proteins from one organism are found in the same order and orientation in another. The system code is being made freely available by the authors.
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              Swarm: robust and fast clustering method for amplicon-based studies

              Popular de novo amplicon clustering methods suffer from two fundamental flaws: arbitrary global clustering thresholds, and input-order dependency induced by centroid selection. Swarm was developed to address these issues by first clustering nearly identical amplicons iteratively using a local threshold, and then by using clusters’ internal structure and amplicon abundances to refine its results. This fast, scalable, and input-order independent approach reduces the influence of clustering parameters and produces robust operational taxonomic units.
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                Author and article information

                Journal
                Brief. Bioinformatics
                Briefings in bioinformatics
                Oxford University Press (OUP)
                1477-4054
                1467-5463
                July 19 2019
                : 20
                : 4
                Article
                4210288
                10.1093/bib/bbx120
                6781581
                29028872
                383a2b6d-8042-4374-9b25-eb5d2400f660
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                next-generation sequencing,microbiome,microbial genomics,databases,bacteria

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