Title
De novo haplotype reconstruction in viral quasispecies using paired-end read guided path finding.
Abstract
Motivation: RNA virus populations contain different but genetically related strains, all infecting an individual host. Reconstruction of the viral haplotypes is a fundamental step to characterize the virus population, predict their viral phenotypes and finally provide important information for clinical treatment and prevention. Advances of the next-generation sequencing technologies open up new opportunities to assemble full-length haplotypes. However, error-prone short reads, high similarities between related strains, an unknown number of haplotypes pose computational challenges for reference-free haplotype reconstruction. There is still much room to improve the performance of existing haplotype assembly tools. Results: In this work, we developed a de novo haplotype reconstruction tool named PEHaplo, which employs paired-end reads to distinguish highly similar strains for viral quasispecies data. It was applied on both simulated and real quasispecies data, and the results were benchmarked against several recently published de novo haplotype reconstruction tools. The comparison shows that PEHaplo outperforms the benchmarked tools in a comprehensive set of metrics.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1093/bioinformatics/bty202
BIOINFORMATICS
Field
DocType
Volume
Viral quasispecies,Computer science,Haplotype,Computational biology,Bioinformatics
Journal
34
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
17
1367-4803
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
18
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jiao Chen171.88
Yingchao Zhao219118.14
Yanni Sun321921.16