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ArticleMicrobial genomics2017

SNVPhyl: a single nucleotide variant phylogenomics pipeline for microbial genomic epidemiology.

Aaron Petkau, Philip Mabon, Cameron Sieffert, Natalie C Knox, Jennifer Cabral, Mariam Iskander, Mark Iskander, Kelly Weedmark, Rahat Zaheer, Lee S Katz and 8 more

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Article in Microbial genomics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 90 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

90 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors.

Aaron Petkau1​National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB R3E 3R2, Canada.
Philip Mabon1​National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB R3E 3R2, Canada.
Cameron Sieffert1​National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB R3E 3R2, Canada.
Natalie C Knox1​National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB R3E 3R2, Canada.
Jennifer Cabral1​National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB R3E 3R2, Canada.
Mariam Iskander2​University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada.
Mark Iskander2​University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada.
Kelly Weedmark3​Health Canada - Bureau of Microbial Hazards, Ottawa, ON K1A 0K9, Canada.
Rahat Zaheer4​Lethbridge Research and Development Centre, Lethbridge, AB T1J 4B1, Canada.
Lee S Katz5​Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA.
Celine Nadon1​National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB R3E 3R2, Canada.
Aleisha Reimer1​National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB R3E 3R2, Canada.
Eduardo Taboada1​National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB R3E 3R2, Canada.
Robert G Beiko6​Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada.
William Hsiao7​BC Public Health Microbiology and Reference Laboratory, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4R4, Canada.
Fiona Brinkman8​Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada.
Morag Graham1​National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB R3E 3R2, Canada.
Gary Van Domselaar1​National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB R3E 3R2, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The recent widespread application of whole-genome sequencing (WGS) for microbial disease investigations has spurred the development of new bioinformatics tools, including a notable proliferation of phylogenomics pipelines designed for infectious disease surveillance and outbreak investigation. Transitioning the use of WGS data out of the research laboratory and into the front lines of surveillance and outbreak response requires user-friendly, reproducible and scalable pipelines that have been well validated. Single Nucleotide Variant Phylogenomics (SNVPhyl) is a bioinformatics pipeline for identifying high-quality single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) and constructing a whole-genome phylogeny from a collection of WGS reads and a reference genome. Individual pipeline components are integrated into the Galaxy bioinformatics framework, enabling data analysis in a user-friendly, reproducible and scalable environment. We show that SNVPhyl can detect SNVs with high sensitivity and specificity, and identify and remove regions of high SNV density (indicative of recombination). SNVPhyl is able to correctly distinguish outbreak from non-outbreak isolates across a range of variant-calling settings, sequencing-coverage thresholds or in the presence of contamination. SNVPhyl is available as a Galaxy workflow, Docker and virtual machine images, and a Unix-based command-line application. SNVPhyl is released under the Apache 2.0 license and available at http://snvphyl.readthedocs.io/ or at https://github.com/phac-nml/snvphyl-galaxy.

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Computational BiologyDisease OutbreaksGenome, MicrobialInfectionsPhylogenyWhole Genome SequencingWorkflowHumansbacterial genomicsbioinformaticsgenomic epidemiologyinfectious disease surveillancephylogenomicssingle nucleotide variation detection

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PMID29026651
PMCPMC5628696

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