Rapid multi-locus sequence typing direct from uncorrected long reads using Krocus

PeerJ

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Andrew J. Page¹  Jacqueline A. Keane² 

[1] Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich Research Park;Pathogen Informatics, Wellcome Sanger Institute

关键词: Microbial;    Bioinformatics;    Nanopore;    Pacbio;    Multi-locus sequence typing;   

DOI  :  10.7717/peerj.5233

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Inra

【 摘 要 】

Genome sequencing is rapidly being adopted in reference labs and hospitals for bacterial outbreak investigation and diagnostics where time is critical. Seven gene multi-locus sequence typing is a standard tool for broadly classifying samples into sequence types (STs), allowing, in many cases, to rule a sample out of an outbreak, or allowing for general characteristics about a bacterial strain to be inferred. Long-read sequencing technologies, such as from Oxford Nanopore, can produce read data within minutes of an experiment starting, unlike short-read sequencing technologies which require many hours/days. However, the error rates of raw uncorrected long read data are very high. We present Krocus which can predict a ST directly from uncorrected long reads, and which was designed to consume read data as it is produced, providing results in minutes. It is the only tool which can do this from uncorrected long reads. We tested Krocus on over 700 isolates sequenced using long-read sequencing technologies from Pacific Biosciences and Oxford Nanopore. It provides STs for isolates on average within 90 s, with a sensitivity of 94% and specificity of 97% on real sample data, directly from uncorrected raw sequence reads. The software is written in Python and is available under the open source license GNU GPL version 3.

【 授权许可】

CC BY