Informed kmer selection for de novo transcriptome assembly.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

De novo transcriptome assembly is an integral part for many RNA-seq workflows. Common applications include sequencing of non-model organisms, cancer or meta transcriptomes. Most de novo transcriptome assemblers use the de Bruijn graph (DBG) as the underlying data structure. The quality of the assemblies produced by such assemblers is highly influenced by the exact word length k As such no single kmer value leads to optimal results. Instead, DBGs over different kmer values are built and the assemblies are merged to improve sensitivity. However, no studies have investigated thoroughly the problem of automatically learning at which kmer value to stop the assembly. Instead a suboptimal selection of kmer values is often used in practice.

Results

Here we investigate the

SUBMITTER: Durai DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4892416 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature