MINTyper: an outbreak-detection method for accurate and rapid SNP typing of clonal clusters with noisy long reads.

ABSTRACT: For detection of clonal outbreaks in clinical settings, we present a complete pipeline that generates a single-nucleotide polymorphisms-distance matrix from a set of sequencing reads. Importantly, the program is able to handle a separate mix of both short reads from the Illumina sequencing platforms and long reads from Oxford Nanopore Technologies' (ONT) platforms as input. MINTyper performs automated reference identification, alignment, alignment trimming, optional methylation masking, and pairwise distance calculations. With this approach, we could rapidly and accurately cluster a set of DNA sequenced isolates, with a known epidemiological relationship to confirm the clustering. Functions were built to allow for both high-accuracy methylation-aware base-called MinION reads (hac_m Q10) an

SUBMITTER: Hallgren MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8106442 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature