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MetaPalette: a k-mer Painting Approach for Metagenomic Taxonomic Profiling and Quantification of Novel Strain Variation

David Koslicki, Daniel Falush, Daniel Falush

mSystems, Volume: 1, Issue: 3, Start page: e00020-16

Swansea University Author: Daniel Falush

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DOI (Published version): 10.1128/msystems.00020-16

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Metagenomic profiling is challenging in part because of the highly uneven sampling of the tree of life by genome sequencing projects and the limitations imposed by performing phylogenetic inference at fixed taxonomic ranks. We present the algorithm MetaPalette, which uses long k-mer sizes (k = 30, 5...

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Published in: mSystems
ISSN: 2379-5077
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2016
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa34179
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Abstract: Metagenomic profiling is challenging in part because of the highly uneven sampling of the tree of life by genome sequencing projects and the limitations imposed by performing phylogenetic inference at fixed taxonomic ranks. We present the algorithm MetaPalette, which uses long k-mer sizes (k = 30, 50) to fit a k-mer “palette” of a given sample to the k-mer palette of reference organisms. By modeling the k-mer palettes of unknown organisms, the method also gives an indication of the presence, abundance, and evolutionary relatedness of novel organisms present in the sample. The method returns a traditional, fixed-rank taxonomic profile which is shown on independently simulated data to be one of the most accurate to date. Tree figures are also returned that quantify the relatedness of novel organisms to reference sequences, and the accuracy of such figures is demonstrated on simulated spike-ins and a metagenomic soil sample. The software implementing MetaPalette is available at: https://github.com/dkoslicki/MetaPalette. Pretrained databases are included for Archaea, Bacteria, Eukaryota, and viruses.
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Keywords: Taxonomic profiling, Metagenomics, Quantitative methods
College: Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences
Issue: 3
Start Page: e00020-16

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