SEQU-INTO : Early detection of impurities, contamination and off-targets (ICOs) in long read/MinION sequencing

© 2020 The Author(s)..

The MinION sequencer by Oxford Nanopore Technologies turns DNA and RNA sequencing into a routine task in biology laboratories or in field research. For downstream analysis it is required to have a sufficient amount of target reads. Especially prokaryotic or bacteriophagic sequencing samples can contain a significant amount of off-target sequences in the processed sample, stemming from human DNA/RNA contamination, insufficient rRNA depletion, or remaining DNA/RNA from other organisms (e.g. host organism from bacteriophage cultivation). Such impurity, contamination and off-targets (ICOs) block read capacity, requiring to sequence deeper. In comparison to second-generation sequencing, MinION sequencing allows to reuse its chip after a (partial) run. This allows further usage of the same chip with more sample, even after adjusting the library preparation to reduce ICOs. The earlier a sample's ICOs are detected, the better the sequencing chip can be conserved for future use. Here we present sequ-into, a low-resource and user-friendly cross-platform tool to detect ICO sequences from a predefined ICO database in samples early during a MinION sequencing run. The data provided by sequ-into empowers the user to quickly take action to preserve sample material and chip capacity. sequ-into is available from https://github.com/mjoppich/sequ-into.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:18

Enthalten in:

Computational and structural biotechnology journal - 18(2020) vom: 05., Seite 1342-1351

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Joppich, Markus [VerfasserIn]
Olenchuk, Margaryta [VerfasserIn]
Mayer, Julia M [VerfasserIn]
Emslander, Quirin [VerfasserIn]
Jimenez-Soto, Luisa F [VerfasserIn]
Zimmer, Ralf [VerfasserIn]

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Bioinformatics
Contamination
Journal Article
Nanopore Sequencing
User-friendly

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Date Revised 11.11.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.csbj.2020.05.014

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM311906052