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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2010

Clustering metagenomic sequences with interpolated Markov models.

David R Kelley, Steven L Salzberg

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.

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2 authors.

David R KelleyCenter for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, College Park, MD 20742, USA. dakelley@umiacs.umd.edu
Steven L Salzberg

Funding

COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF GENES AND GENE STRUCTURER01LM006845 · NLM · UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK · PI SALZBERG, STEVEN L. · 1999 to 2010
$5.9M
Alignment Software for Second-Generation SequencingR01HG006102 · NHGRI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI SALZBERG, STEVEN L. · 2011 to 2014
$2.2M
Bioinformatics Software for Analyzing Microbial GenomesR01GM083873 · NIGMS · UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK · PI SALZBERG, STEVEN L. · 2008 to 2017
$2.1M
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG006102NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM083873NLM NIH HHS R01 LM006845NLM NIH HHS R01-LM006845NLM NIH HHS R01-LM083873
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundSequencing of environmental DNA (often called metagenomics) has shown tremendous potential to uncover the vast number of unknown microbes that cannot be cultured and sequenced by traditional methods. Because the output from metagenomic sequencing is a large set of reads of unknown origin, clustering reads together that were sequenced from the same species is a crucial analysis step. Many effective approaches to this task rely on sequenced genomes in public databases, but these genomes are a highly biased sample that is not necessarily representative of environments interesting to many metagenomics projects.

resultsWe present SCIMM (Sequence Clustering with Interpolated Markov Models), an unsupervised sequence clustering method. SCIMM achieves greater clustering accuracy than previous unsupervised approaches. We examine the limitations of unsupervised learning on complex datasets, and suggest a hybrid of SCIMM and supervised learning method Phymm called PHYSCIMM that performs better when evolutionarily close training genomes are available.

conclusionsSCIMM and PHYSCIMM are highly accurate methods to cluster metagenomic sequences. SCIMM operates entirely unsupervised, making it ideal for environments containing mostly novel microbes. PHYSCIMM uses supervised learning to improve clustering in environments containing microbial strains from well-characterized genera. SCIMM and PHYSCIMM are available open source from http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/software/scimm.

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Markov ChainsCluster AnalysisDatabases, FactualMetagenomicsPattern Recognition, AutomatedSequence Analysis, DNA

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PMID21044341
PMCPMC3098094

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