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ArticleBMC research notes2024

Design and implementation of a metagenomic analytical pipeline for respiratory pathogen detection.

Pablo Alessandro B Viana, Diogo Antonio Tschoeke, Laise de Moraes, Luciane Amorim Santos, Manoel Barral-Netto, Ricardo Khouri, Pablo Ivan P Ramos, Pedro Milet Meirelles

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Pablo Alessandro B VianaInstitute of Biology, Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Salvador, Brazil.
Diogo Antonio TschoekeHealth Systems Engineering Laboratory, Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute of Graduate Studies and Engineering Research (COPPE), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Laise de MoraesLaboratory of Precision Medicine and Public Health (MESP 2), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
Luciane Amorim SantosLaboratory of Precision Medicine and Public Health (MESP 2), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
Manoel Barral-NettoCenter for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
Ricardo KhouriLaboratory of Precision Medicine and Public Health (MESP 2), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
Pablo Ivan P RamosCenter for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
Pedro Milet MeirellesFederal University of Bahia School of Medicine, Salvador, Bahia, 41745-715, Brazil. pmeirelles@ufba.br.

Funding

Rockefeller Foundation 2023-PPI-007
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Abstract

objectiveWe developed an in-house bioinformatics pipeline to improve the detection of respiratory pathogens in metagenomic sequencing data. This pipeline addresses the need for short-time analysis, high accuracy, scalability, and reproducibility in a high-performance computing environment.

resultsWe evaluated our pipeline using ninety synthetic metagenomes designed to simulate nasopharyngeal swab samples. The pipeline successfully identified 177 out of 204 respiratory pathogens present in the compositions, with an average processing time of approximately 4 min per sample (processing 1 million paired-end reads of 150 base pairs). For the estimation of all the 470 taxa included in the compositions, the pipeline demonstrated high accuracy, identifying 420 and achieving a correlation of 0.9 between their actual and predicted relative abundances. Among the identified taxa, 27 were significantly underestimated or overestimated, including only three clinically relevant pathogens. We also validated the pipeline by applying it to a clinical dataset from a study on metagenomic pathogen characterization in patients with acute respiratory infections and successfully identified all pathogens responsible for the diagnosed infections. These findings underscore the pipeline's effectiveness in pathogen detection and highlight its potential utility in respiratory pathogen surveillance.

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MetagenomicsRespiratory Tract InfectionsComputational BiologyHumansMetagenomeNasopharynxReproducibility of ResultsBioinformatics pipelineMetagenomicsRespiratory pathogens

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PMID39363203
PMCPMC11451226

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