Dear Editor,Transposable phages,which are reproduced by transposition(Harshey,2012;Taylor,1963),have been widely applied in the field of biotechnology to manipulate operon/gene fusions,in vivo cloning,randomion mutage...Dear Editor,Transposable phages,which are reproduced by transposition(Harshey,2012;Taylor,1963),have been widely applied in the field of biotechnology to manipulate operon/gene fusions,in vivo cloning,randomion mutagenesis,and integration of DNA into bacterial genomes(Abalakina et al.,2008;Akhverdyan et al.,2011).One of the best-studied transposable phages is展开更多
Reconstruction of transcriptome by de novo assembly from next generation sequencing （NGS） short-sequence reads provides an essential mean to catalog expressed genes, identify splicing isoforms, and capture the expre...Reconstruction of transcriptome by de novo assembly from next generation sequencing （NGS） short-sequence reads provides an essential mean to catalog expressed genes, identify splicing isoforms, and capture the expression detail of transcripts for organisms with no reference genome available. De novo transcriptome assembly faces many unique challenges, including alternative splicing, variable expression level covering a dynamic range of several orders of magnitude, artifacts introduced by reverse transcription, etc. In the current review, we illustrate the grand strategy in applying De Bruijn Graph （DBG） approach in de novo transcriptome assembly. We further analyze many parameters proven critical in transcriptome assembly using DBG. Among them, k-met length, coverage depth of reads, genome complexity, performance of different programs are addressed in greater details. A multi-k-mer strategy balancing efficiency and sensitivity is discussed and highly recommended for de novo transcriptome assembly. Future direction points to the combination of NGS and third generation sequencing technology that would greatly enhance the power of de novo transcriptomics study.展开更多
基金supported by the National Basic Research Program(973 Program)of China(2014CB745100)the National Key Technologies R&D Program of China(2012AA022101)
文摘Dear Editor,Transposable phages,which are reproduced by transposition(Harshey,2012;Taylor,1963),have been widely applied in the field of biotechnology to manipulate operon/gene fusions,in vivo cloning,randomion mutagenesis,and integration of DNA into bacterial genomes(Abalakina et al.,2008;Akhverdyan et al.,2011).One of the best-studied transposable phages is
基金ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This work is supported in part by grants from the National Basic Research Program of China （Nos. 2012CB316501, 2012CB517905 and 2013CB 127000） and the National Natural Science Foundation of China （Nos. 31571310 and 31271409）.
文摘Reconstruction of transcriptome by de novo assembly from next generation sequencing （NGS） short-sequence reads provides an essential mean to catalog expressed genes, identify splicing isoforms, and capture the expression detail of transcripts for organisms with no reference genome available. De novo transcriptome assembly faces many unique challenges, including alternative splicing, variable expression level covering a dynamic range of several orders of magnitude, artifacts introduced by reverse transcription, etc. In the current review, we illustrate the grand strategy in applying De Bruijn Graph （DBG） approach in de novo transcriptome assembly. We further analyze many parameters proven critical in transcriptome assembly using DBG. Among them, k-met length, coverage depth of reads, genome complexity, performance of different programs are addressed in greater details. A multi-k-mer strategy balancing efficiency and sensitivity is discussed and highly recommended for de novo transcriptome assembly. Future direction points to the combination of NGS and third generation sequencing technology that would greatly enhance the power of de novo transcriptomics study.
