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ArticleNucleic acids research2012

Rapid identification of high-confidence taxonomic assignments for metagenomic data.

Norman J MacDonald, Donovan H Parks, Robert G Beiko

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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35citing papers in PubMed
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35 citing papers in PubMed, 77 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Norman J MacDonaldFaculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, 6050 University Avenue, PO BOX 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada.
Donovan H Parks
Robert G Beiko
Dalhousie University · CA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Determining the taxonomic lineage of DNA sequences is an important step in metagenomic analysis. Short DNA fragments from next-generation sequencing projects and microbes that lack close relatives in reference sequenced genome databases pose significant problems to taxonomic attribution methods. Our new classification algorithm, RITA (Rapid Identification of Taxonomic Assignments), uses the agreement between composition and homology to accurately classify sequences as short as 50 nt in length by assigning them to different classification groups with varying degrees of confidence. RITA is much faster than the hybrid PhymmBL approach when comparable homology search algorithms are used, and achieves slightly better accuracy than PhymmBL on an artificial metagenome. RITA can also incorporate prior knowledge about taxonomic distributions to increase the accuracy of assignments in data sets with varying degrees of taxonomic novelty, and classified sequences with higher precision than the current best rank-flexible classifier. The accuracy on short reads can be increased by exploiting paired-end information, if available, which we demonstrate on a recently published bovine rumen data set. Finally, we develop a variant of RITA that incorporates accelerated homology search techniques, and generate predictions on a set of human gut metagenomes that were previously assigned to different 'enterotypes'. RITA is freely available in Web server and standalone versions.

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AlgorithmsSequence Analysis, DNAAnimalsCattleClassificationHumansIce CoverMetagenomeMetagenomicsRumenSequence Homology, Nucleic AcidStomach

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PMID22532608
PMCPMC3413139
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