Title
RGAAT: A Reference-based Genome Assembly and Annotation Tool for New Genomes and Upgrade of Known Genomes.
Abstract
The rapid development of high-throughput sequencing technologies has led to a dramatic decrease in the money and time required for de novo genome sequencing or genome resequencing projects, with new genome sequences constantly released every week. Among such projects, the plethora of updated genome assemblies induces the requirement of version-dependent annotation files and other compatible public dataset for downstream analysis. To handle these tasks in an efficient manner, we developed the reference-based genome assembly and annotation tool (RGAAT), a flexible toolkit for resequencing-based consensus building and annotation update. RGAAT can detect sequence variants with comparable precision, specificity, and sensitivity to GATK and with higher precision and specificity than Freebayes and SAMtools on four DNA-seq datasets tested in this study. RGAAT can also identify sequence variants based on cross-cultivar or cross-version genomic alignments. Unlike GATK and SAMtools/BCFtools, RGAAT builds the consensus sequence by taking into account the true allele frequency. Finally, RGAAT generates a coordinate conversion file between the reference and query genomes using sequence variants and supports annotation file transfer. Compared to the rapid annotation transfer tool (RATT), RGAAT displays better performance characteristics for annotation transfer between different genome assemblies, strains, and species. In addition, RGAAT can be used for genome modification, genome comparison, and coordinate conversion. RGAAT is available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/rgaat/ and https://github.com/wushyer/RGAAT_v2 at no cost.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.gpb.2018.03.006
Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Variant identification,Genome assembly,Genome annotation,Genome comparison
Genome,Annotation,Biology,Upgrade,DNA sequencing,File transfer,Computational biology,Genetics,Consensus sequence,Sequence assembly,Genome comparison
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
16
5
1672-0229
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
8
Authors
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wanfei Liu1121.54
Shuangyang Wu201.01
Qiang Lin301.01
Shenghan Gao461.84
Feng Ding591.62
Xiaowei Zhang600.34
Hasan Awad Aljohi700.68
Jun Yu85116.26
Songnian Hu98716.83