Title
Acceleration of sequence clustering using longest common subsequence filtering.
Abstract
Huge numbers of genomes can now be sequenced rapidly with recent improvements in sequencing throughput. However, data analysis methods have not kept up, making it difficult to process the vast amounts of available sequence data. This increased processing time is especially critical in DNA sequence clustering because of the intrinsic difficulty in parallelization. Thus, there is a strong demand for a faster clustering algorithm.We developed a new fast DNA sequence clustering method called LCS-HIT, based on the popular CD-HIT program. The proposed method uses a novel filtering technique based on the longest common subsequence to identify similar sequence pairs. This filtering technique makes the LCS-HIT considerably faster than CD-HIT, without loss of sensitivity. For a dataset of two million DNA sequences, our method was approximately 7.1, 4.4, and 2.2 times faster than CD-HIT for 100, 150, and 400 bases, respectively.The LCS-HIT clustering program, using a novel filtering technique based on the longest common subsequence, is significantly faster than CD-HIT without compromising clustering accuracy. Moreover, the filtering technique itself is independent from the CD-HIT algorithm. Thus, this technique can be applied to similar clustering algorithms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1186/1471-2105-14-S8-S7
BMC Bioinformatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
microarrays,cluster analysis,algorithms,bioinformatics,data mining
Sequence clustering,Clustering high-dimensional data,Alignment-free sequence analysis,Longest common subsequence problem,Data analysis,Computer science,Filter (signal processing),DNA sequencing,Bioinformatics,Cluster analysis
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
14 Suppl 8
S-8
1471-2105
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.38
11
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Youhei Namiki180.76
Takashi Ishida2416.58
Yutaka Akiyama317237.62