Computational Methods for Microbial and Microbiome Sequence Analysis

微生物和微生物组序列分析的计算方法

• 批准号: 10550160
• 负责人: Steven L. Salzberg
• 金额: $ 40.34万
• 依托单位: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-02-01 至 2025-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10550160
• 关键词: Address; Adopted; Algorithms; Amaze; Anthrax disease; Archaea; Area; Bacteria; Bacterial Genome; Cholera; Computer software; Computing Methodologies; Data; Data Set; Development; Diagnosis; Environment; Eukaryota; Experimental Designs; Explosion; Genes; Genome; Human Microbiome; Infection; Licensing; Lyme Disease; Metagenomics; Methods; Organism; Pathogenicity; Performance; Problem Solving; Publications; Publishing; Scientist; Sequence Analysis; Shotgun Sequencing; Staphylococcal Infections; Syphilis; System; Technology; Third Generation Sequencing; Tuberculosis; Update; Virus; Work; bacterial genome sequencing; cost effective; experimental study; genome database; improved; microbial; microbiome; microorganism; next generation sequencing; open source; tool; whole genome

Project Summary This project will support our work on computational methods for microbial sequence analysis, including gene finding, whole-genome alignment, genome assembly, and metagenomic sequence analysis. Over the years we have developed multiple systems to solve problems in these areas, some of which are very widely used. These tools need continued updates and improvements to keep pace with changes in sequencing technology, changes in experimental design, and the ever-growing number of sequenced genomes. One of these systems is Glimmer, a computational method for finding genes in bacteria, viruses, archaea, and simple eukaryotes. Glimmer is highly accurate, finding over 99% of the genes in most prokaryotic genomes. It has been used by thousands of scientists around the world and in the majority of published bacterial genome sequencing projects over the past decade. Collectively the three main publications describing Glimmer have been cited over 4,700 times, including >700 citations in 2016-17 alone. Usage of Glimmer has been increased in recent years due to the explosion in next-generation sequencing projects, which are particularly cost-effective for bacterial genomes. A second system, MUMmer, is an efficient whole-genome aligner that is used to compare genomes to one another and to compare genome assemblies to detect changes, both large and small. MUMmer and its components, especially Nucmer, have been widely used and incorporated in other systems, including multi-genome aligners and several genome assembly packages. The three main publications describing MUMmer have been cited over 3,600 times including >750 citations in 2016-17. In recent years we have focused our efforts on developing methods for the analysis of metagenomics data, producing several newer tools, including Kraken and Centrifuge. Both of these systems attempt to assign a species identifier to every read in a metagenomics data set. Because the Kraken algorithm is not only accurate but far faster than earlier methods, it was rapidly adopted by many labs soon after its release, and its usage continues to grow. The even newer and more space- efficient Centrifuge system has also been highly successful and was recently incorporated into the analysis package of one of the new third-generation sequencing companies. We continue to work on improving the performance of both algorithms, and this project will allow us to extend them to handle the newest long-read data that is increasingly being used for metagenomics experiments. Finally, a new direction of the lab is the use of metagenomic shotgun sequencing to diagnose infections, for which we are not only modifying our algorithms, but also building customized genome databases where we rigorously screen the genomes to identify and remove contaminants and low-complexity sequences that create false positives. As we have done for many years, we will release all of the software and data generated by this project for free under an open source license, allowing other scientists to use, modify, and redistribute them without restrictions of any kind.

项目总结

项目成果

3D-Beacons: decreasing the gap between protein sequences and structures through a federated network of protein structure data resources.

• DOI: 10.1093/gigascience/giac118
• 发表时间: 2022-11-30
• 期刊: GigaScience
• 影响因子: 9.2

JASPER: A fast genome polishing tool that improves accuracy of genome assemblies.

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011032
• 发表时间: 2023-03
• 期刊: PLoS computational biology
• 影响因子: 4.3

Rapidly fatal infection with Bacillus cereus/thuringiensis: genome assembly of the responsible pathogen and consideration of possibly contributing toxins.

• DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2021.115534
• 发表时间: 2021-12
• 期刊: DIAGNOSTIC MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE
• 影响因子: 2.9
• 作者: Butcher, Monica;Puiu, Daniela;Romagnoli, Mark;Carroll, Karen C.;Salzberg, Steven L.;Nauen, David W.
• 通讯作者: Nauen, David W.

CHESS 3: an improved, comprehensive catalog of human genes and transcripts based on large-scale expression data, phylogenetic analysis, and protein structure.

• DOI: 10.1186/s13059-023-03088-4
• 发表时间: 2023-10-30
• 期刊: GENOME BIOLOGY
• 影响因子: 12.3
• 作者: Varabyou, Ales;Sommer, Markus J;Erdogdu, Beril;Shinder, Ida;Minkin, Ilia;Chao, Kuan-Hao;Park, Sukhwan;Heinz, Jakob;Pockrandt, Christopher;Shumate, Alaina;Rincon, Natalia;Puiu, Daniela;Steinegger, Martin;Salzberg, Steven L;Pertea, Mihaela
• 通讯作者: Pertea, Mihaela

Releasing the Kraken.

• DOI: 10.3389/fbinf.2021.808003
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: FRONTIERS IN BIOINFORMATICS
• 作者: Salzberg, Steven L;Wood, Derrick E
• 通讯作者: Wood, Derrick E