Easy and accurate reconstruction of whole HIV genomes from short-read sequence data with shiver.

ABSTRACT: Studying the evolution of viruses and their molecular epidemiology relies on accurate viral sequence data, so that small differences between similar viruses can be meaningfully interpreted. Despite its higher throughput and more detailed minority variant data, next-generation sequencing has yet to be widely adopted for HIV. The difficulty of accurately reconstructing the consensus sequence of a quasispecies from reads (short fragments of DNA) in the presence of large between- and within-host diversity, including frequent indels, may have presented a barrier. In particular, mapping (aligning) reads to a reference sequence leads to biased loss of information; this bias can distort epidemiological and evolutionary conclusions. De novo assembly avoids this bias by aligning the reads to

SUBMITTER: Wymant C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5961307 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature