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ArticleBioinformatics advances2022

QuasiFlow: a Nextflow pipeline for analysis of NGS-based HIV-1 drug resistance data.

Alfred Ssekagiri, Daudi Jjingo, Ibra Lujumba, Nicholas Bbosa, Daniel L Bugembe, David P Kateete, I King Jordan, Pontiano Kaleebu, Deogratius Ssemwanga

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Alfred SsekagiriDepartment of General Virology, Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe 31405, Uganda.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6549-3550
Daudi JjingoDepartment of Computer Science, Makerere University, Kampala 10207, Uganda.
Ibra LujumbaDepartment of Immunology and Molecular Biology, Makerere University, Kampala 10206, Uganda.
Nicholas BbosaMedical Research Council (MRC)/Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe 31405, Uganda.
Daniel L BugembeMedical Research Council (MRC)/Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe 31405, Uganda.
David P KateeteDepartment of Immunology and Molecular Biology, Makerere University, Kampala 10206, Uganda.
I King JordanSchool of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4996-2203
Pontiano KaleebuDepartment of General Virology, Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe 31405, Uganda.
Deogratius SsemwangaDepartment of General Virology, Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe 31405, Uganda.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9675-4234

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Medical Research Council MC_EX_MR/L016273/1Medical Research Council MC_UU_00027/1
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Abstract

Summary: Next-generation sequencing (NGS) enables reliable detection of resistance mutations in minority variants of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). There is paucity of evidence for the association of minority resistance to treatment failure, and this requires evaluation. However, the tools for analyzing HIV-1 drug resistance (HIVDR) testing data are mostly web-based which requires uploading data to webservers. This is a challenge for laboratories with internet connectivity issues and instances with restricted data transfer across networks. We present QuasiFlow, a pipeline for reproducible analysis of NGS-based HIVDR testing data across different computing environments. Since QuasiFlow entirely depends on command-line tools and a local copy of the reference database, it eliminates challenges associated with uploading HIV-1 NGS data onto webservers. The pipeline takes raw sequence reads in FASTQ format as input and generates a user-friendly report in PDF/HTML format. The drug resistance scores obtained using QuasiFlow were 100% and 99.12% identical to those obtained using web-based HIVdb program and HyDRA web respectively at a mutation detection threshold of 20%. Availability and implementation: QuasiFlow and corresponding documentation are publicly available at https://github.com/AlfredUg/QuasiFlow. The pipeline is implemented in Nextflow and requires regular updating of the Stanford HIV drug resistance interpretation algorithm. Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at

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