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GAML: genome assembly by maximum likelihood

Overview of attention for article published in Algorithms for Molecular Biology, June 2015
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Title
GAML: genome assembly by maximum likelihood
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Algorithms for Molecular Biology, June 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13015-015-0052-6
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Vladimír Boža, Broňa Brejová, Tomáš Vinař

Abstract

Resolution of repeats and scaffolding of shorter contigs are critical parts of genome assembly. Modern assemblers usually perform such steps by heuristics, often tailored to a particular technology for producing paired or long reads. We propose a new framework that allows systematic combination of diverse sequencing datasets into a single assembly. We achieve this by searching for an assembly with the maximum likelihood in a probabilistic model capturing error rate, insert lengths, and other characteristics of the sequencing technology used to produce each dataset. We have implemented a prototype genome assembler GAML that can use any combination of insert sizes with Illumina or 454 reads, as well as PacBio reads. Our experiments show that we can assemble short genomes with N50 sizes and error rates comparable to ALLPATHS-LG or Cerulean. While ALLPATHS-LG and Cerulean require each a specific combination of datasets, GAML works on any combination. We have introduced a new probabilistic approach to genome assembly and demonstrated that this approach can lead to superior results when used to combine diverse set of datasets from different sequencing technologies. Data and software is available at http://compbio.fmph.uniba.sk/gaml.

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Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 3%
France 1 3%
Germany 1 3%
Brazil 1 3%
Unknown 31 89%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 26%
Researcher 8 23%
Student > Master 4 11%
Student > Postgraduate 3 9%
Student > Bachelor 3 9%
Other 6 17%
Unknown 2 6%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 15 43%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 29%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 14%
Mathematics 1 3%
Engineering 1 3%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 3 9%
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