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ArticleNPJ biofilms and microbiomes2021

Recovery of complete genomes and non-chromosomal replicons from activated sludge enrichment microbial communities with long read metagenome sequencing.

Krithika Arumugam, Irina Bessarab, Mindia A S Haryono, Xianghui Liu, Rogelio E Zuniga-Montanez, Samarpita Roy, Guanglei Qiu, Daniela I Drautz-Moses, Ying Yu Law, Stefan Wuertz and 3 more

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Article in NPJ biofilms and microbiomes, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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13 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Krithika Arumugam *Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
Irina Bessarab *Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Mindia A S HaryonoSingapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3248-425X
Xianghui LiuSingapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
Rogelio E Zuniga-MontanezSingapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2931-1721
Samarpita RoySingapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
Guanglei QiuSingapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1769-3494
Daniela I Drautz-MosesSingapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
Ying Yu LawSingapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
Stefan WuertzSingapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3415-6199
Federico M LauroSingapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8373-1014
Daniel H HusonInstitute for Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Rohan B H WilliamsSingapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore. lsirbhw@nus.edu.sg.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1286-5277
Nanyang Technological University · SGNational University of Singapore · SG

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

New long read sequencing technologies offer huge potential for effective recovery of complete, closed genomes from complex microbial communities. Using long read data (ONT MinION) obtained from an ensemble of activated sludge enrichment bioreactors we recover 22 closed or complete genomes of community members, including several species known to play key functional roles in wastewater bioprocesses, specifically microbes known to exhibit the polyphosphate- and glycogen-accumulating organism phenotypes (namely Candidatus Accumulibacter and Dechloromonas, and Micropruina, Defluviicoccus and Candidatus Contendobacter, respectively), and filamentous bacteria (Thiothrix) associated with the formation and stability of activated sludge flocs. Additionally we demonstrate the recovery of close to 100 circularised plasmids, phages and small microbial genomes from these microbial communities using long read assembled sequence. We describe methods for validating long read assembled genomes using their counterpart short read metagenome-assembled genomes, and assess the influence of different correction procedures on genome quality and predicted gene quality. Our findings establish the feasibility of performing long read metagenome-assembled genome recovery for both chromosomal and non-chromosomal replicons, and demonstrate the value of parallel sampling of moderately complex enrichment communities to obtaining high quality reference genomes of key functional species relevant for wastewater bioprocesses.

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BacteriaBacteriophagesBioreactorsComputational BiologyGenome, BacterialGlycogenMetagenomePlasmidsPolyphosphatesSewageGlycogenPolyphosphatesSewage

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PMID33727564
PMCPMC7966762
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