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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2018

RIFRAF: a frame-resolving consensus algorithm.

Kemal Eren, Ben Murrell

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  1. Long-read amplicon denoising.Nucleic acids research · 2019
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Kemal ErenBioinformatics and Systems Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Ben MurrellDepartment of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.

Funding

LC: HIV Vaccine Trials NetworkUM1AI068618 · NIAID · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI Margaret Juliana McElrath · 2011 to 2026
$483.6M
VirologyP30AI036214 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Maile Ann Young Karris · 1994 to 2026
$78.4M
High-throughput Deep Sequencing Assay to Reliably Measure the HIV Reservoir during Antiretroviral TherapyR01AI120009 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI SMITH, DAVID MITCHELL · 2015 to 2019
$3.4M
Characterizing proviral populations in brain tissuesR21DA041007 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI SMITH, DAVID MITCHELL · 2015 to 2017
$1.2M
Viral sequence and dynamic determinants of antibody breadthR00AI120851 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI MURRELL, BENJAMIN SYLVESTER · 2016 to 2017
$493k
Inferring physico-chemical constraints at individual sites in protein evolutionR21AI115701 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI WERTHEIM, JOEL OKRENT · 2015 to 2016
$416k
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Abstract

Motivation: Protein coding genes can be studied using long-read next generation sequencing. However, high rates of indel sequencing errors are problematic, corrupting the reading frame. Even the consensus of multiple independent sequence reads retains indel errors. To solve this problem, we introduce Reference-Informed Frame-Resolving multiple-Alignment Free template inference algorithm (RIFRAF), a sequence consensus algorithm that takes a set of error-prone reads and a reference sequence and infers an accurate in-frame consensus. RIFRAF uses a novel structure, analogous to a two-layer hidden Markov model: the consensus is optimized to maximize alignment scores with both the set of noisy reads and with a reference. The template-to-reads component of the model encodes the preponderance of indels, and is sensitive to the per-base quality scores, giving greater weight to more accurate bases. The reference-to-template component of the model penalizes frame-destroying indels. A local search algorithm proceeds in stages to find the best consensus sequence for both objectives. Results: Using Pacific Biosciences SMRT sequences from an HIV-1 env clone, NL4-3, we compare our approach to other consensus and frame correction methods. RIFRAF consistently finds a consensus sequence that is more accurate and in-frame, especially with small numbers of reads. It was able to perfectly reconstruct over 80% of consensus sequences from as few as three reads, whereas the best alternative required twice as many. RIFRAF is able to achieve these results and keep the consensus in-frame even with a distantly related reference sequence. Moreover, unlike other frame correction methods, RIFRAF can detect and keep true indels while removing erroneous ones. Availability and implementation: RIFRAF is implemented in Julia, and source code is publicly available at https://github.com/MurrellGroup/Rifraf.jl. Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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AlgorithmsHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingConsensusReading FramesSequence Analysis, DNA

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PMID29850783
PMCPMC6223371

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