DESMAN: a new tool for de novo extraction of strains from metagenomes.

ABSTRACT: We introduce DESMAN for De novo Extraction of Strains from Metagenomes. Large multi-sample metagenomes are being generated but strain variation results in fragmentary co-assemblies. Current algorithms can bin contigs into metagenome-assembled genomes but are unable to resolve strain-level variation. DESMAN identifies variants in core genes and uses co-occurrence across samples to link variants into haplotypes and abundance profiles. These are then searched for against non-core genes to determine the accessory genome of each strain. We validated DESMAN on a complex 50-species 210-genome 96-sample synthetic mock data set and then applied it to the Tara Oceans microbiome.

SUBMITTER: Quince C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5607848 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature