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- Title
Efficient de novo assembly of single-cell bacterial genomes from short-read data sets.
- Authors
Chitsaz, Hamidreza; Yee-Greenbaum, Joyclyn L; Tesler, Glenn; Lombardo, Mary-Jane; Dupont, Christopher L; Badger, Jonathan H; Novotny, Mark; Rusch, Douglas B; Fraser, Louise J; Gormley, Niall A; Schulz-Trieglaff, Ole; Smith, Geoffrey P; Evers, Dirk J; Pevzner, Pavel A; Lasken, Roger S
- Abstract
Whole genome amplification by the multiple displacement amplification (MDA) method allows sequencing of DNA from single cells of bacteria that cannot be cultured. Assembling a genome is challenging, however, because MDA generates highly nonuniform coverage of the genome. Here we describe an algorithm tailored for short-read data from single cells that improves assembly through the use of a progressively increasing coverage cutoff. Assembly of reads from single Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus cells captures >91% of genes within contigs, approaching the 95% captured from an assembly based on many E. coli cells. We apply this method to assemble a genome from a single cell of an uncultivated SAR324 clade of Deltaproteobacteria, a cosmopolitan bacterial lineage in the global ocean. Metabolic reconstruction suggests that SAR324 is aerobic, motile and chemotaxic. Our approach enables acquisition of genome assemblies for individual uncultivated bacteria using only short reads, providing cell-specific genetic information absent from metagenomic studies.
- Publication
Nature biotechnology, 2011, Vol 29, Issue 10, p915
- ISSN
1546-1696
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1038/nbt.1966