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Accuracy and quality assessment of 454 GS-FLX Titanium pyrosequencing
BACKGROUND: The rapid evolution of 454 GS-FLX sequencing technology has not been accompanied by a reassessment of the quality and accuracy of the sequences obtained. Current strategies for decision-making and error-correction are based on an initial analysis by Huse et al. in 2007, for the older GS2...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3116506/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21592414 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-12-245 |
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author | Gilles, André Meglécz, Emese Pech, Nicolas Ferreira, Stéphanie Malausa, Thibaut Martin, Jean-François |
author_facet | Gilles, André Meglécz, Emese Pech, Nicolas Ferreira, Stéphanie Malausa, Thibaut Martin, Jean-François |
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description | BACKGROUND: The rapid evolution of 454 GS-FLX sequencing technology has not been accompanied by a reassessment of the quality and accuracy of the sequences obtained. Current strategies for decision-making and error-correction are based on an initial analysis by Huse et al. in 2007, for the older GS20 system based on experimental sequences. We analyze here the quality of 454 sequencing data and identify factors playing a role in sequencing error, through the use of an extensive dataset for Roche control DNA fragments. RESULTS: We obtained a mean error rate for 454 sequences of 1.07%. More importantly, the error rate is not randomly distributed; it occasionally rose to more than 50% in certain positions, and its distribution was linked to several experimental variables. The main factors related to error are the presence of homopolymers, position in the sequence, size of the sequence and spatial localization in PT plates for insertion and deletion errors. These factors can be described by considering seven variables. No single variable can account for the error rate distribution, but most of the variation is explained by the combination of all seven variables. CONCLUSIONS: The pattern identified here calls for the use of internal controls and error-correcting base callers, to correct for errors, when available (e.g. when sequencing amplicons). For shotgun libraries, the use of both sequencing primers and deep coverage, combined with the use of random sequencing primer sites should partly compensate for even high error rates, although it may prove more difficult than previous thought to distinguish between low-frequency alleles and errors. |
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spelling | pubmed-31165062011-06-17 Accuracy and quality assessment of 454 GS-FLX Titanium pyrosequencing Gilles, André Meglécz, Emese Pech, Nicolas Ferreira, Stéphanie Malausa, Thibaut Martin, Jean-François BMC Genomics Research Article BACKGROUND: The rapid evolution of 454 GS-FLX sequencing technology has not been accompanied by a reassessment of the quality and accuracy of the sequences obtained. Current strategies for decision-making and error-correction are based on an initial analysis by Huse et al. in 2007, for the older GS20 system based on experimental sequences. We analyze here the quality of 454 sequencing data and identify factors playing a role in sequencing error, through the use of an extensive dataset for Roche control DNA fragments. RESULTS: We obtained a mean error rate for 454 sequences of 1.07%. More importantly, the error rate is not randomly distributed; it occasionally rose to more than 50% in certain positions, and its distribution was linked to several experimental variables. The main factors related to error are the presence of homopolymers, position in the sequence, size of the sequence and spatial localization in PT plates for insertion and deletion errors. These factors can be described by considering seven variables. No single variable can account for the error rate distribution, but most of the variation is explained by the combination of all seven variables. CONCLUSIONS: The pattern identified here calls for the use of internal controls and error-correcting base callers, to correct for errors, when available (e.g. when sequencing amplicons). For shotgun libraries, the use of both sequencing primers and deep coverage, combined with the use of random sequencing primer sites should partly compensate for even high error rates, although it may prove more difficult than previous thought to distinguish between low-frequency alleles and errors. BioMed Central 2011-05-19 /pmc/articles/PMC3116506/ /pubmed/21592414 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-12-245 Text en Copyright ©2011 Gilles et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Gilles, André Meglécz, Emese Pech, Nicolas Ferreira, Stéphanie Malausa, Thibaut Martin, Jean-François Accuracy and quality assessment of 454 GS-FLX Titanium pyrosequencing |
title | Accuracy and quality assessment of 454 GS-FLX Titanium pyrosequencing |
title_full | Accuracy and quality assessment of 454 GS-FLX Titanium pyrosequencing |
title_fullStr | Accuracy and quality assessment of 454 GS-FLX Titanium pyrosequencing |
title_full_unstemmed | Accuracy and quality assessment of 454 GS-FLX Titanium pyrosequencing |
title_short | Accuracy and quality assessment of 454 GS-FLX Titanium pyrosequencing |
title_sort | accuracy and quality assessment of 454 gs-flx titanium pyrosequencing |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3116506/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21592414 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-12-245 |
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