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ArticleMicrobial genomics2017

Aligner optimization increases accuracy and decreases compute times in multi-species sequence data.

Kelly M Robinson, Aziah S Hawkins, Ivette Santana-Cruz, Ricky S Adkins, Amol C Shetty, Sushma Nagaraj, Lisa Sadzewicz, Luke J Tallon, David A Rasko, Claire M Fraser and 3 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 18 papers.

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18 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kelly M Robinson1Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Aziah S Hawkins1Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Ivette Santana-Cruz1Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Ricky S Adkins1Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Amol C Shetty1Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Sushma Nagaraj1Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Lisa Sadzewicz1Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Luke J Tallon1Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
David A Rasko1Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Claire M Fraser1Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Anup Mahurkar1Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Joana C Silva1Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Julie C Dunning Hotopp2Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
University of Maryland, Baltimore · US

Funding

Technology CoreU19AI110820 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI WHITE, OWEN R · 2014 to 2023
$36.5M
Extent and Significance of Bacterial DNA Integrations in the Human Cancer GenomeR01CA206188 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI DUNNING HOTOPP, JULIE · 2015 to 2020
$3.6M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA206188NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI110820
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As sequencing technologies have evolved, the tools to analyze these sequences have made similar advances. However, for multi-species samples, we observed important and adverse differences in alignment specificity and computation time for bwa- mem (Burrows-Wheeler aligner-maximum exact matches) relative to bwa-aln. Therefore, we sought to optimize bwa-mem for alignment of data from multi-species samples in order to reduce alignment time and increase the specificity of alignments. In the multi-species cases examined, there was one majority member (i.e.

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Sequence Analysis, DNASoftwareAnimalsBrugia malayiChromosome MappingData AccuracyDatabases, GeneticDatasets as TopicGenome, HumanHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansMetagenomicsPlasmodium falciparumSequence AlignmentTime FactorsWolbachiaBrugiaBWAdual-species alignmentgenome sequence alignmentPlasmodiumWolbachia

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PMID29114401
PMCPMC5643015
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