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- Title
Shortlisting aptamer Candidates from HT-SELEX data.
- Authors
Allnutt, Theodore R.; Wade, Ben; Quinn, Thomas P.; Richardson, Mark F.; Crowley, Tamsyn M.
- Abstract
High-throughput systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment (HT-SELEX) is a development of SELEX which uses next generation sequencing to analyse the aptamer selection process. Computational tools have previously been developed specifically to analyse HT-SELEX data and assist in shortlisting aptamers most likely to have high affinity to the SELEX target(s). We have exploited a published HT-SELEX data set to assess the performance of six aptamer clustering methods and four methods to rank the clusters in their ability to shortlist the highest affinity aptamers. We found that methods which attempt to take into account secondary structure, in terms of its enrichment characteristics and complexity, did not perform as well as simpler methods, which cluster based on sequence alone and rank by a measure of the final absolute enrichment. We also demonstrate that analysis methods developed for amplicon metagenomics perform well on HT-SELEX data. Importantly, we note a lack of publicly accessible HT-SELEX/validation data despite numerous studies reporting the use of this technique, which hampers extensive comparative benchmarking. We implore the community to make data public to aid methodological advances in aptamer shortlisting and benchmarking.
- Subjects
APTAMERS; METAGENOMICS
- Publication
Aptamers, 2018, Vol 2, p36
- ISSN
2514-3247
- Publication type
Article