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ArticleMicrobial genomics2018

Comprehensive assessment of the quality of Salmonella whole genome sequence data available in public sequence databases using the Salmonella in silico Typing Resource (SISTR).

James Robertson, Catherine Yoshida, Peter Kruczkiewicz, Celine Nadon, Anil Nichani, Eduardo N Taboada, John Howard Eagles Nash

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Article in Microbial genomics, 2018. 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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7 authors.

James Robertson1​National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Guelph, ON, Canada.
Catherine Yoshida2​National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
Peter Kruczkiewicz2​National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
Celine Nadon2​National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
Anil Nichani1​National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Guelph, ON, Canada.
Eduardo N Taboada3​National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Lethbridge, AB, Canada.
John Howard Eagles Nash4​National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Public health and food safety institutions around the world are adopting whole genome sequencing (WGS) to replace conventional methods for characterizing Salmonella for use in surveillance and outbreak response. Falling costs and increased throughput of WGS have resulted in an explosion of data, but questions remain as to the reliability and robustness of the data. Due to the critical importance of serovar information to public health, it is essential to have reliable serovar assignments available for all of the Salmonella records. The current study used a systematic assessment and curation of all Salmonella in the sequence read archive (SRA) to assess the state of the data and their utility. A total of 67 758 genomes were assembled de novo and quality-assessed for their assembly metrics as well as species and serovar assignments. A total of 42 400 genomes passed all of the quality criteria but 30.16 % of genomes were deposited without serotype information. These data were used to compare the concordance of reported and predicted serovars for two in silico prediction tools, multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) and the Salmonella in silico Typing Resource (SISTR), which produced predictions that were fully concordant with 87.51 and 91.91 % of the tested isolates, respectively. Concordance of in silico predictions increased when serovar variants were grouped together, 89.25 % for MLST and 94.98 % for SISTR. This study represents the first large-scale validation of serovar information in public genomes and provides a large validated set of genomes, which can be used to benchmark new bioinformatics tools.

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Databases, Nucleic AcidBacterial Typing TechniquesComputer SimulationDNA, BacterialGenome, BacterialMultilocus Sequence TypingPublic HealthReproducibility of ResultsSalmonellaSalmonella entericaSalmonella InfectionsSequence AnalysisSerogroupSerotypingWhole Genome SequencingDNA, Bacterialphenotype predictionPublic HealthSalmonellaserotypingsurveillancewhole genome sequencing

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PMCPMC5857378

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