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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2026

TrIdent - An R package to automate transductomics analysis of virus-like particle mediated DNA mobilization.

Jessie Maier, Craig Gin, Jorden Rabasco, Avery Bass, Wynter Spencer, Breck A Duerkop, Benjamin Callahan, Manuel Kleiner

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8 authors.

Jessie MaierDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.ORCID 0009-0001-8575-5386
Craig GinPopulation Health and Pathobiology Department, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.ORCID 0000-0002-7447-663X
Jorden RabascoPopulation Health and Pathobiology Department, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.ORCID 0000-0002-6971-6678
Avery BassDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.ORCID 0009-0003-2633-4260
Wynter SpencerDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.ORCID 0009-0006-8628-4586
Breck A DuerkopDepartment of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado - Anschutz Medical Campus, School of Medicine, Aurora, CO.ORCID 0000-0003-4030-9822
Benjamin CallahanPopulation Health and Pathobiology Department, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.ORCID 0000-0002-8752-117X
Manuel KleinerDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.ORCID 0000-0001-6904-0287

Funding

Quantitative Metagenomics and the Vaginal Microbiome of Preterm BirthR35GM133745 · NIGMS · NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY RALEIGH · PI Benjamin John Callahan · 2019 to 2026
$2.3M
DNA transduction in intestinal microbiomes and the spread of pathogenicity traitsR01AI171046 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI Breck A Duerkop, Manuel Kleiner · 2024 to 2026
$2.2M
Metaproteomics to investigate intestinal microbiota-host and -diet interactionsR35GM138362 · NIGMS · NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY RALEIGH · PI KLEINER, MANUEL · 2020 to 2024
$1.9M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI171046NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM133745NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM138362
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Transduction is a form of horizontal gene transfer in which bacterial DNA is packaged and transferred by virus-like particles (VLPs). Transductomics is a sequencing-based method used to detect DNA carried by VLPs. During transductomics analysis, reads from a sample's ultra-purified VLPs are mapped to metagenomic contigs assembled from the same sample's whole-community. The read mapping produces coverage patterns that require a time-consuming manual inspection and classification process which makes the method's use unfeasible for datasets with many samples. Results: We developed a novel algorithm, TrIdent ( Conclusions: The TrIdent software is a more accessible, more efficient, and more reproducible alternative to the manual inspection of read coverage patterns previously required for transductomics data analysis. To demonstrate the application of TrIdent, we analyzed transductomics datasets from murine fecal pellets and showed that specific low abundance bacterial families appear to be heavily involved in transduction.

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classificationgut microbiomeHorizontal gene transferpattern-matchingtransductionvirus-like particle

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PMCPMC13060214

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