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New long read sequencing technologies, like PacBio SMRT and Oxford NanoPore, can produce sequencing reads up to 50,000 bp long but with an error rate of at least 15%. Reducing the error rate is necessary for subsequent utilisation of the…
Assembling genomic sequences from a set of overlapping reads is one of the most fundamental problems in computational biology. Algorithms addressing the assembly problem fall into two broad categories -- based on the data structures which…
Converting a set of sequencing reads into a lossless compact data structure that encodes all the relevant biological information is a major challenge. The classical approaches are to build the string graph or the de Bruijn graph. Each has…
The first step in any genome assembly algorithm entails the conversion from the domain of strings and overlaps to the language of graphs and paths, typically using one of the two conventional methods: de Bruijn graphs or overlap graphs.…
Background Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) has dramatically enhanced our ability to sequence genomes, but not to assemble them. In practice, many published genome sequences remain in the state of a large set of contigs. Each contig…
Metagenomics research has accelerated the studies of microbial organisms, providing insights into the composition and potential functionality of various microbial communities. Metatranscriptomics (studies of the transcripts from a mixture…
De Bruijn graph is one of the most important data structures used in de-novo genome assembly algorithms, especially for NGS data. There is a growing need for parallel data structures and algorithms due to the increasing number of cores in…
There are currently plenty of programs available for mapping short sequences (reads) to a genome. Most of them, however, including such popular and actively developed programs as Bowtie, BWA, TopHat and many others, are based on…
Genome assembly using high throughput data with short reads, arguably, remains an unresolvable task in repetitive genomes, since when the length of a repeat exceeds the read length, it becomes difficult to unambiguously connect the flanking…
The rapid expansion of genomic sequence data calls for new methods to achieve robust sequence representations. Existing techniques often neglect intricate structural details, emphasizing mainly contextual information. To address this, we…
De novo genome assembly is challenging in highly repetitive regions; however, reference-guided assemblers often suffer from bias. We propose a framework for pangenome-guided sequence assembly, which can resolve short-read data in complex…
Motivation: Illumina Sequencing data can provide high coverage of a genome by relatively short (100 bp150 bp) reads at a low cost. Our goal is to produce trimmed and error-corrected reads to improve genome assemblies. Our error correction…
The formal version of our work has been published in BMC Bioinformatics and can be found here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/13/S6/S1 Motivation: To tackle the problem of huge memory usage associated with de Bruijn graph-based…
Motivation: Next-generation sequencing tools have enabled producing of huge amount of genomic information at low cost. Unfortunately, presence of sequencing errors in such data affects quality of downstream analyzes. Accuracy of them can be…
In the last decade a number of algorithms and associated software have been developed to align next generation sequencing (NGS) reads with relevant reference genomes. The accuracy of these programs may vary significantly, especially when…
Recently, Marcus et al. (Bioinformatics 2014) proposed to use a compressed de Bruijn graph to describe the relationship between the genomes of many individuals/strains of the same or closely related species. They devised an $O(n \log g)$…
Massively parallel DNA sequencing technologies are revolutionizing genomics research. Billions of short reads generated at low costs can be assembled for reconstructing the whole genomes. Unfortunately, the large memory footprint of the…
In this article, we show how to transform a colored de Bruijn graph (dBG) into a practical index for processing massive sets of sequencing reads. Similar to previous works, we encode an instance of a colored dBG of the set using BOSS and a…
The de Bruijn graph $G_K$ of a set of strings $S$ is a key data structure in genome assembly that represents overlaps between all the $K$-length substrings of $S$. Construction and navigation of the graph is a space and time bottleneck in…
This paper is focused in designing an efficient on-line algorithm to reconstruct a DNA sequence and search the genes in it, we assume that the segment have no mutation or reading error, the algorithm is based on de Bruijn Graph for…