Title
RdRp-based sensitive taxonomic classification of RNA viruses for metagenomic data
Abstract
With advances in library construction protocols and next-generation sequencing technologies, viral metagenomic sequencing has become the major source for novel virus discovery. Conducting taxonomic classification for metagenomic data is an important means to characterize the viral composition in the underlying samples. However, RNA viruses are abundant and highly diverse, jeopardizing the sensitivity of comparison-based classification methods. To improve the sensitivity of read-level taxonomic classification, we developed an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) gene-based read classification tool RdRpBin. It combines alignment-based strategy with machine learning models in order to fully exploit the sequence properties of RdRp. We tested our method and compared its performance with the state-of-the-art tools on the simulated and real sequencing data. RdRpBin competes favorably with all. In particular, when the query RNA viruses share low sequence similarity with the known viruses (similar to 0.4), our tool can still maintain a higher F-score than the state-of-the-art tools. The experimental results on real data also showed that RdRpBin can classify more RNA viral reads with a relatively low false-positive rate. Thus, RdRpBin can be utilized to classify novel and diverged RNA viruses.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1093/bib/bbac011
BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
RNA virus, RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, Probabilistic Relational Neighbor Classifier, Graph Neural Network
Journal
23
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
1467-5463
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xubo Tang100.68
Jiayu Shang200.68
Yanni Sun321921.16