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Full-length de novo viral quasispecies assembly through variation graph construction

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Motivation: Viruses populate their hosts as a viral quasispecies: a collection of genetically related mutant strains.Viral quasispecies assembly refers to reconstructing the strain-specific haplotypes from read data, and predicting their relative abundances within the mix of strains, an important step for various treatment-related reasons. Reference-genome-independent ("de novo") approaches have yielded benefits over reference-guided approaches, because reference-induced biases can become overwhelming when dealing with divergent strains. While being very accurate, extant de novo methods only yield rather short contigs. It remains to reconstruct full-length haplotypes together with their abundances from such contigs. Method: We first construct a variation graph, a recently popular, suitable structure for arranging and integrating several related genomes, from the short input contigs, without making use of a reference genome. To obtain paths through the variation graph that reflect the original haplotypes, we solve a minimization problem that yields a selection of maximal-length paths that is optimal in terms of being compatible with the read coverages computed for the nodes of the variation graph. We output the resulting selection of maximal length paths as the haplotypes, together with their abundances. Results: Benchmarking experiments on challenging simulated data sets show significant improvements in assembly contiguity compared to the input contigs, while preserving low error rates. As a consequence, our method outperforms all state-of-the-art viral quasispecies assem-blers that aim at the construction of full-length haplotypes, in terms of various relevant assembly measures. Our tool, Virus-VG, is publicly available at https://bitbucket.org/jbaaijens/ virus-vg.
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hal-01964730 , version 1 (23-12-2018)

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Jasmijn A Baaijens, Bastiaan van Der Roest, Johannes Koester, Leen Stougie, Alexander Schoenhuth. Full-length de novo viral quasispecies assembly through variation graph construction. RECOMB-Seq 2018 - RECOMB Satellite on Massively Parallel Sequencing, Apr 2018, Paris, France. pp.1-12, ⟨10.1101/287177⟩. ⟨hal-01964730⟩

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