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Integrated de novo gene prediction and peptide assembly of metagenomic sequencing data
Thippabhotla, Sirisha Liu, Ben Podgorny, Adam Yooseph, Shibu Yang, Youngik Zhang, Jun Zhong, Cuncong
Thippabhotla, Sirisha
Liu, Ben
Podgorny, Adam
Yooseph, Shibu
Yang, Youngik
Zhang, Jun
Zhong, Cuncong
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Metagenomics is the study of all genomic content contained in given microbial communities. Metagenomic functional analysis aims to quantify protein families and reconstruct metabolic pathways from the metagenome. It plays a central role in understanding the interaction between the microbial community and its host or environment. De novo functional analysis, which allows the discovery of novel protein families, remains challenging for high-complexity communities. There are currently three main approaches for recovering novel genes or proteins: de novo nucleotide assembly, gene calling and peptide assembly. Unfortunately, their information dependency has been overlooked, and each has been formulated as an independent problem. In this work, we develop a sophisticated workflow called integrated Metagenomic Protein Predictor (iMPP), which leverages the information dependencies for better de novo functional analysis. iMPP contains three novel modules: a hybrid assembly graph generation module, a graph-based gene calling module, and a peptide assembly-based refinement module. iMPP significantly improved the existing gene calling sensitivity on unassembled metagenomic reads, achieving a 92–97% recall rate at a high precision level (>85%). iMPP further allowed for more sensitive and accurate peptide assembly, recovering more reference proteins and delivering more hypothetical protein sequences. The high performance of iMPP can provide a more comprehensive and unbiased view of the microbial communities under investigation. iMPP is freely available from https://github.com/Sirisha-t/iMPP.
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2023-03-11
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Oxford University Press
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Sirisha Thippabhotla, Ben Liu, Adam Podgorny, Shibu Yooseph, Youngik Yang, Jun Zhang, Cuncong Zhong, Integrated de novo gene prediction and peptide assembly of metagenomic sequencing data, NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics, Volume 5, Issue 1, March 2023, lqad023, https://doi.org/10.1093/nargab/lqad023