NGmerge: merging paired-end reads via novel empirically-derived models of sequencing errors

Background Advances in Illumina DNA sequencing technology have produced longer paired-end reads that increasingly have sequence overlaps. These reads can be merged into a single read that spans the full length of the original DNA fragment, allowing for error correction and accurate determination of...

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Vydáno v:	BMC bioinformatics Ročník 19; číslo 1; s. 536 - 9
Hlavní autor:	Gaspar, John M.
Médium:	Journal Article
Jazyk:	angličtina
Vydáno:	London BioMed Central 20.12.2018 BioMed Central Ltd Springer Nature B.V BMC
Témata:	Algorithms Analysis Bioinformatics Biomedical and Life Sciences Cancer Computational Biology/Bioinformatics Computer Appl. in Life Sciences Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA DNA sequencing Empirical analysis Error correction Error correction & detection Genomes High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing - methods High-throughput sequencing Humans Illumina paired-end sequencing Life Sciences Methodology Methodology Article Microarrays Nucleotide sequence Open source software Quality Read merging Sequence analysis (methods) Sequence Analysis, DNA - methods sequencing errors; quality scores; PhiX Source programs High-throughput sequencing Illumina paired-end sequencing Read merging sequencing errors; quality scores; PhiX
ISSN:	1471-2105, 1471-2105
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Shrnutí:	Background Advances in Illumina DNA sequencing technology have produced longer paired-end reads that increasingly have sequence overlaps. These reads can be merged into a single read that spans the full length of the original DNA fragment, allowing for error correction and accurate determination of read coverage. Extant merging programs utilize simplistic or unverified models for the selection of bases and quality scores for the overlapping region of merged reads. Results We first examined the baseline quality score - error rate relationship using sequence reads derived from PhiX. In contrast to numerous published reports, we found that the quality scores produced by Illumina were not substantially inflated above the theoretical values, once the reference genome was corrected for unreported sequence variants. The PhiX reads were then used to create empirical models of sequencing errors in overlapping regions of paired-end reads, and these models were incorporated into a novel merging program, NGmerge. We demonstrate that NGmerge corrects errors and ambiguous bases better than other merging programs, and that it assigns quality scores for merged bases that accurately reflect the error rates. Our results also show that, contrary to published analyses, the sequencing errors of paired-end reads are not independent. Conclusions We provide a free and open-source program, NGmerge, that performs better than existing read merging programs. NGmerge is available on GitHub ( https://github.com/harvardinformatics/NGmerge ) under the MIT License; it is written in C and supported on Linux.
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ISSN:	1471-2105 1471-2105
DOI:	10.1186/s12859-018-2579-2