Title
andi: fast and accurate estimation of evolutionary distances between closely related genomes.
Abstract
Motivation: A standard approach to classifying sets of genomes is to calculate their pairwise distances. This is difficult for large samples. We have therefore developed an algorithm for rapidly computing the evolutionary distances between closely related genomes. Results: Our distance measure is based on ungapped local alignments that we anchor through pairs of maximal unique matches of a minimum length. These exact matches can be looked up efficiently using enhanced suffix arrays and our implementation requires approximately only 1 s and 45 MB RAM/Mbase analysed. The pairing of matches distinguishes non-homologous from homologous regions leading to accurate distance estimation. We show this by analysing simulated data and genome samples ranging from 29 Escherichia coli/Shigella genomes to 3085 genomes of Streptococcus pneumoniae.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1093/bioinformatics/btu815
BIOINFORMATICS
Field
DocType
Volume
Genome,Pairwise comparison,Data mining,Suffix,Computer science,Unix,Ranging,Bioinformatics,Computation
Journal
31
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
8
1367-4803
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bernhard Haubold117710.92
Fabian Klötzl271.92
Peter Pfaffelhuber3434.34