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ArticleNucleic acids research2018

riboSeed: leveraging prokaryotic genomic architecture to assemble across ribosomal regions.

Nicholas R Waters, Florence Abram, Fiona Brennan, Ashleigh Holmes, Leighton Pritchard

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Nicholas R WatersMicrobiology, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland, Galway, H91 TK33, Ireland.
Florence AbramMicrobiology, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland, Galway, H91 TK33, Ireland.
Fiona BrennanMicrobiology, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland, Galway, H91 TK33, Ireland.
Ashleigh HolmesCell and Molecular Sciences, James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, Scotland.
Leighton PritchardInformation and Computational Sciences, James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, Scotland.
James Hutton Institute · GBOllscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway · IETeagasc - The Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority · IE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The vast majority of bacterial genome sequencing has been performed using Illumina short reads. Because of the inherent difficulty of resolving repeated regions with short reads alone, only ∼10% of sequencing projects have resulted in a closed genome. The most common repeated regions are those coding for ribosomal operons (rDNAs), which occur in a bacterial genome between 1 and 15 times, and are typically used as sequence markers to classify and identify bacteria. Here, we exploit the genomic context in which rDNAs occur across taxa to improve assembly of these regions relative to de novo sequencing by using the conserved nature of rDNAs across taxa and the uniqueness of their flanking regions within a genome. We describe a method to construct targeted pseudocontigs generated by iteratively assembling reads that map to a reference genome's rDNAs. These pseudocontigs are then used to more accurately assemble the newly sequenced chromosome. We show that this method, implemented as riboSeed, correctly bridges across adjacent contigs in bacterial genome assembly and, when used in conjunction with other genome polishing tools, can assist in closure of a genome.

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Base SequenceChromosome MappingDNA, BacterialDNA, RibosomalEscherichia coliGenome, BacterialGenomicsHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingKlebsiella pneumoniaeSequence Analysis, DNASoftwareDNA, BacterialDNA, Ribosomal

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PMID29608703
PMCPMC6009695
OpenAlexW2951489664

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