VGA: A method for viral quasispecies assembly from ultra-deep sequencing data

We present VGA, an accurate method for viral quasispecies assembly from ultra-deep sequencing data. The proposed method consists of a high-fidelity sequencing protocol and an accurate method for viral quasispecies assembly, referred to as Viral Genome Assembler (VGA). The proposed protocol is able t...

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Published in2014 IEEE 4th International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS) p. 1
Main Authors Mangul, Serghei, Wu, Nicholas C., Mancuso, Nicholas, Zelikovsky, Alex, Ren Sun, Eskin, Eleazar
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.06.2014
Subjects
Assembly
Computer science
error-correction protocol
Human immunodeficiency virus
NGS
Protocols
Sequential analysis
Sociology
Statistics
viral assembly
viral quasispecies
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Summary:We present VGA, an accurate method for viral quasispecies assembly from ultra-deep sequencing data. The proposed method consists of a high-fidelity sequencing protocol and an accurate method for viral quasispecies assembly, referred to as Viral Genome Assembler (VGA). The proposed protocol is able to eliminate sequencing errors by using individual barcodes attached to the sequencing fragments. Results on both synthetic and real datasets show that our method able to accurately assemble HIV viral quasispecies and detect rare quasispecies previously undetectable due to sequencing errors. VGA outperforms state-of-the-art methods for the viral assembly. Furthermore, our method is the first viral assembly method which scales to millions of sequencing reads. Our tool VGA is freely available at http://genetics.cs.ucla.edu/vga/
ISBN:9781479957866
1479957860
DOI:10.1109/ICCABS.2014.6863932