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TreeToReads - a pipeline for simulating raw reads from phylogenies

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Bioinformatics, March 2017
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Title
TreeToReads - a pipeline for simulating raw reads from phylogenies
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BMC Bioinformatics, March 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12859-017-1592-1
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Emily Jane McTavish, James Pettengill, Steven Davis, Hugh Rand, Errol Strain, Marc Allard, Ruth E. Timme

Abstract

Using phylogenomic analysis tools for tracking pathogens has become standard practice in academia, public health agencies, and large industries. Using the same raw read genomic data as input, there are several different approaches being used to infer phylogenetic tree. These include many different SNP pipelines, wgMLST approaches, k-mer algorithms, whole genome alignment and others; each of these has advantages and disadvantages, some have been extensively validated, some are faster, some have higher resolution. A few of these analysis approaches are well-integrated into the regulatory process of US Federal agencies (e.g. the FDA's SNP pipeline for tracking foodborne pathogens). However, despite extensive validation on benchmark datasets and comparison with other pipelines, we lack methods for fully exploring the effects of multiple parameter values in each pipeline that can potentially have an effect on whether the correct phylogenetic tree is recovered. To resolve this problem, we offer a program, TreeToReads, which can generate raw read data from mutated genomes simulated under a known phylogeny. This simulation pipeline allows direct comparisons of simulated and observed data in a controlled environment. At each step of these simulations, researchers can vary parameters of interest (e.g., input tree topology, amount of sequence divergence, rate of indels, read coverage, distance of reference genome, etc) to assess the effects of various parameter values on correctly calling SNPs and reconstructing an accurate tree. Such critical assessments of the accuracy and robustness of analytical pipelines are essential to progress in both research and applied settings.

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Country Count As %
Sweden 1 2%
Canada 1 2%
Egypt 1 2%
Spain 1 2%
United States 1 2%
Unknown 58 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 18 29%
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 29%
Student > Master 10 16%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 5%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 5%
Other 5 8%
Unknown 6 10%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 27 43%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 10 16%
Computer Science 6 10%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 6%
Immunology and Microbiology 3 5%
Other 6 10%
Unknown 7 11%
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