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Efficient High-Quality Metagenome Assembly from Long Accurate Reads using Minimizer-space de Bruijn Graphs

We introduce a novel metagenomics assembler for high-accuracy long reads. Our approach, implemented as metaMDBG, combines highly efficient de Bruijn graph assembly in minimizer space, with both a multi-k′ approach for dealing with variations in genome coverage depth and an abundance-based filtering...

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Autores principales: Benoit, Gaëtan, Raguideau, Sébastien, James, Robert, Phillippy, Adam M., Chikhi, Rayan, Quince, Christopher
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10541625/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37786716
http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.07.07.548136
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Sumario:We introduce a novel metagenomics assembler for high-accuracy long reads. Our approach, implemented as metaMDBG, combines highly efficient de Bruijn graph assembly in minimizer space, with both a multi-k′ approach for dealing with variations in genome coverage depth and an abundance-based filtering strategy for simplifying strain complexity. The resulting algorithm is more efficient than the state-of-the-art but with better assembly results. metaMDBG was 1.5 to 12 times faster than competing assemblers and requires between one-tenth and one-thirtieth of the memory across a range of data sets. We obtained up to twice as many high-quality circularised prokaryotic metagenome assembled genomes (MAGs) on the most complex communities, and a better recovery of viruses and plasmids. metaMDBG performs particularly well for abundant organisms whilst being robust to the presence of strain diversity. The result is that for the first time it is possible to efficiently reconstruct the majority of complex communities by abundance as near-complete MAGs.