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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2024

Parsnp 2.0: scalable core-genome alignment for massive microbial datasets.

Bryce Kille, Michael G Nute, Victor Huang, Eddie Kim, Adam M Phillippy, Todd J Treangen

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers.

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Bryce KilleDepartment of Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-2946-6915
Michael G NuteDepartment of Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, United States.
Victor HuangDepartment of Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, United States.
Eddie KimDepartment of Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, United States.
Adam M PhillippyGenome Informatics Section, Center for Genomics and Data Science Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-2983-8934
Todd J TreangenDepartment of Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-3760-564X

Funding

TRAINING PROGRAM IN COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINET15LM007093 · NLM · RICE UNIVERSITY · PI Lydia E. Kavraki · 1992 to 2026
$20.8M
Single-molecule sequence assembly and analysisZIAHG200398 · NHGRI · NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI PHILLIPPY, ADAM · 2016 to 2025
$15.9M
National Library of Medicine Training Program in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science T15LM007093NLM NIH HHS T15 LM007093
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationSince 2016, the number of microbial species with available reference genomes in NCBI has more than tripled. Multiple genome alignment, the process of identifying nucleotides across multiple genomes which share a common ancestor, is used as the input to numerous downstream comparative analysis methods. Parsnp is one of the few multiple genome alignment methods able to scale to the current era of genomic data; however, there has been no major release since its initial release in 2014.

resultsTo address this gap, we developed Parsnp v2, which significantly improves on its original release. Parsnp v2 provides users with more control over executions of the program, allowing Parsnp to be better tailored for different use-cases. We introduce a partitioning option to Parsnp, which allows the input to be broken up into multiple parallel alignment processes which are then combined into a final alignment. The partitioning option can reduce memory usage by over 4× and reduce runtime by over 2×, all while maintaining a precise core-genome alignment. The partitioning workflow is also less susceptible to complications caused by assembly artifacts and minor variation, as alignment anchors only need to be conserved within their partition and not across the entire input set. We highlight the performance on datasets involving thousands of bacterial and viral genomes. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Parsnp v2 is available at https://github.com/marbl/parsnp.

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Genome, BacterialSequence AlignmentSoftwareAlgorithmsGenomics

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