Using the longest run subsequence problem within homology-based scaffolding

Genome assembly is one of the most important problems in computational genomics. Here, we suggest addressing an issue that arises in homology-based scaffolding, that is, when linking and ordering contigs to obtain larger pseudo-chromosomes by means of a second incomplete assembly of a related specie...

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Veröffentlicht in:Algorithms for molecular biology Jg. 16; H. 1; S. 1 - 11
Hauptverfasser: Schrinner, Sven, Goel, Manish, Wulfert, Michael, Spohr, Philipp, Schneeberger, Korbinian, Klau, Gunnar W.
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: London BioMed Central 28.06.2021
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ISSN:1748-7188, 1748-7188
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Zusammenfassung:Genome assembly is one of the most important problems in computational genomics. Here, we suggest addressing an issue that arises in homology-based scaffolding, that is, when linking and ordering contigs to obtain larger pseudo-chromosomes by means of a second incomplete assembly of a related species. The idea is to use alignments of binned regions in one contig to find the most homologous contig in the other assembly. We show that ordering the contigs of the other assembly can be expressed by a new string problem, the longest run subsequence problem (LRS). We show that LRS is NP-hard and present reduction rules and two algorithmic approaches that, together, are able to solve large instances of LRS to provable optimality. All data used in the experiments as well as our source code are freely available. We demonstrate its usefulness within an existing larger scaffolding approach by solving realistic instances resulting from partial Arabidopsis thaliana assemblies in short computation time.
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ISSN:1748-7188
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DOI:10.1186/s13015-021-00191-8