SDRAP for annotating scrambled or rearranged genomes

DNA rearrangements are important in various contexts, such as in vertebrate immunity, and cancer genome instability. The single-celled eukaryote Oxytricha trifallax undergoes massive and reproducible genome rearrangement during post-zygotic development, making it a compelling model organism to study...

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Published inbioRxiv
Main Authors Braun, Jasper, Neme, Rafik, Feng, Yi, Landweber, Laura F, Jonoska, Natasha
Format Paper
LanguageEnglish
Published Cold Spring Harbor Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 25.10.2022
Subjects
Annotations
Computer applications
Deoxyribonucleic acid
DNA
Genomes
Genomic instability
Software
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Summary:DNA rearrangements are important in various contexts, such as in vertebrate immunity, and cancer genome instability. The single-celled eukaryote Oxytricha trifallax undergoes massive and reproducible genome rearrangement during post-zygotic development, making it a compelling model organism to study DNA rearrangements. To date, computational tools for the extraction and analysis of rearrangement annotations lack transparency and rely on assumptions that may not hold for all analyzed data, leading to irreproducibility of results and loss of information through data filtering or misrepresentation. An implementation of a procedure for the annotation and analysis of DNA rearrangement as a web application is discussed and tested. The resulting annotations provide an improvement over previous annotations in the following manner. (a) SDRAP achieves more complete precursor-product mappings than previous software (b) the software allows for full transparency of all parameters used during the annotation and therefore facilitates reproducible results, and (c) this parameter transparency makes SDRAP suitable for comparison of genomic data from different sources, including cancer genomes. This work introduces a theoretical framework and software to systematically extract and analyze annotations from pairs of genome assemblies corresponding to precursor and product rearrangement data. The software makes no assumptions about the structure of the rearrangements, and permits the user to select parameters to suit the data. Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. Footnotes * https://github.com/JasperBraun/SDRAP
DOI:10.1101/2022.10.24.513505