Title
MapReduce for accurate error correction of next-generation sequencing data.
Abstract
Motivation: Next-generation sequencing platforms have produced huge amounts of sequence data. This is revolutionizing every aspect of genetic and genomic research. However, these sequence datasets contain quite a number of machine-induced errors-e.g. errors due to substitution can be as high as 2.5%. Existing error-correction methods are still far from perfect. In fact, more errors are sometimes introduced than correct corrections, especially by the prevalent k-mer based methods. The existing methods have also made limited exploitation of on-demand cloud computing. Results: We introduce an error-correction method named MEC, which uses a two-layered MapReduce technique to achieve high correction performance. In the first layer, all the input sequences are mapped to groups to identify candidate erroneous bases in parallel. In the second layer, the erroneous bases at the same position are linked together from all the groups for making statistically reliable corrections. Experiments on real and simulated datasets show that our method outperforms existing methods remarkably. Its per-position error rate is consistently the lowest, and the correction gain is always the highest.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1093/bioinformatics/btx089
BIOINFORMATICS
Field
DocType
Volume
Data mining,Computer science,Error detection and correction,DNA sequencing
Journal
33
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
23
1367-4803
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
19
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Liang Zhao110013.74
Qingfeng Chen242.81
Wencui Li310.69
Peng Jiang425942.86
Limsoon Wong53628638.37
jinyan li62404191.25