Title
An Efficient, Scalable and Exact Representation of High-Dimensional Color Information Enabled via de Bruijn Graph Search.
Abstract
The colored de Bruijn graph (cdbg) and its variants have become an important combinatorial structure used in numerous areas in genomics, such as population-level variation detection in metagenomic samples, large scale sequence search, and cdbg-based reference sequence indices. As samples or genomes are added to the cdbg, the color information comes to dominate the space required to represent this data structure. In this paper, we show how to represent the color information efficiently by adopting a hierarchical encoding that exploits correlations among color classes — patterns of color occurrence — present in the de Bruijn graph (dbg). A major challenge in deriving an efficient encoding of the color information that takes advantage of such correlations is determining which color classes are close to each other in the high-dimensional space of possible color patterns. We demonstrate that the dbg itself can be used as an efficient mechanism to search for approximate nearest neighbors in this space. While our approach reduces the encoding size of the color information even for relatively small cdbgs (hundreds of experiments), the gains are particularly consequential as the number of potential colors (i.e. samples or references) grows to thousands of experiments. We apply this encoding in the context of two different applications; the implicit cdbg used for a large-scale sequence search index, Mantis, as well as the encoding of color information used in population-level variation detection by tools such as Vari and Rainbowfish. Our results show significant improvements in the overall size and scalability of representation of the color information. In our experiment on 10,000 samples, we achieved more than 11x better compression compared to RRR. An implementation of the new MST-based color class encoding is written in C++17 and is available at https://github.com/splatlab/mantis.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/978-3-030-17083-7_1
RECOMB
Field
DocType
Citations 
Data structure,Colored,Pattern recognition,Biology,Search engine indexing,Exploit,De Bruijn graph,Artificial intelligence,Genetics,Reference genome,Encoding (memory),Scalability
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fatemeh Almodaresi172.56
Prashant Pandey2183.01
Alex Ramirez3141158.19
Rob Johnson456239.43
Rob Patro511112.98