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Illumina error profiles : resolving fine-scale variation in metagenomic sequencing data
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Schirmer, Melanie, D’Amore, Rosalinda, Ijaz, Umer Z., Hall, Neil and Quince, Christopher (2016) Illumina error profiles : resolving fine-scale variation in metagenomic sequencing data. BMC Bioinformatics, 17 (1). pp. 1-15. 125. doi:10.1186/s12859-016-0976-y
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12859-016-0976-y
Abstract
Background:
Illumina’s sequencing platforms are currently the most utilised sequencing systems worldwide. The technology has rapidly evolved over recent years and provides high throughput at low costs with increasing read-lengths and true paired-end reads. However, data from any sequencing technology contains noise and our understanding of the peculiarities and sequencing errors encountered in Illumina data has lagged behind this rapid development.
Results:
We conducted a systematic investigation of errors and biases in Illumina data based on the largest collection of in vitro metagenomic data sets to date. We evaluated the Genome Analyzer II, HiSeq and MiSeq and tested state-of-the-art low input library preparation methods. Analysing in vitro metagenomic sequencing data allowed us to determine biases directly associated with the actual sequencing process. The position- and nucleotide-specific analysis revealed a substantial bias related to motifs (3mers preceding errors) ending in “GG”. On average the top three motifs were linked to 16 % of all substitution errors. Furthermore, a preferential incorporation of ddGTPs was recorded. We hypothesise that all of these biases are related to the engineered polymerase and ddNTPs which are intrinsic to any sequencing-by-synthesis method. We show that quality-score-based error removal strategies can on average remove 69 % of the substitution errors - however, the motif-bias remains.
Conclusion:
Single-nucleotide polymorphism changes in bacterial genomes can cause significant changes in phenotype, including antibiotic resistance and virulence, detecting them within metagenomes is therefore vital. Current error removal techniques are not designed to target the peculiarities encountered in Illumina sequencing data and other sequencing-by-synthesis methods, causing biases to persist and potentially affect any conclusions drawn from the data. In order to develop effective diagnostic and therapeutic approaches we need to be able to identify systematic sequencing errors and distinguish these errors from true genetic variation.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QP Physiology | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Metagenomics, Nucleotide sequence | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | BMC Bioinformatics | ||||||||
| Publisher: | BioMed Central Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1471-2105 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 11 March 2016 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 17 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||
| Number of Pages: | 15 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1-15 | ||||||||
| Article Number: | 125 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1186/s12859-016-0976-y | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||||
| Funder: | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Medical Research Council (Great Britain) (MRC), Natural Environment Research Council (Great Britain) (NERC) | ||||||||
| Grant number: | EP/H003851/1 (EPSRC), MR/M50161X/1 (MRC), MR/L015080/1 (MRC), NE/L011956/1 (NERC) |
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