Phymm and PhymmBL: metagenomic phylogenetic classification with interpolated Markov models Export

@article{citeulike:5406340, abstract = {Metagenomics projects collect DNA from uncharacterized environments that may contain thousands of species per sample. One main challenge facing metagenomic analysis is phylogenetic classification of raw sequence reads into groups representing the same or similar taxa, a prerequisite for genome assembly and for analyzing the biological diversity of a sample. New sequencing technologies have made metagenomics easier, by making sequencing faster, and more difficult, by producing shorter reads than previous technologies. Classifying sequences from reads as short as 100 base pairs has until now been relatively inaccurate, requiring researchers to use older, long-read technologies. We present Phymm, a classifier for metagenomic data, that has been trained on 539 complete, curated genomes and can accurately classify reads as short as 100 base pairs, a substantial improvement over previous composition-based classification methods. We also describe how combining Phymm with sequence alignment algorithms improves accuracy.}, author = {Brady, Arthur and Salzberg, Steven L.}, citeulike-article-id = {5406340}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1358}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1358}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19648916}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=19648916}, day = {02}, doi = {10.1038/nmeth.1358}, issn = {1548-7091}, journal = {Nature Methods}, keywords = {binning, metagenomics}, month = {August}, number = {9}, pages = {673--676}, posted-at = {2009-09-12 00:27:28}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Nature Publishing Group}, title = {Phymm and PhymmBL: metagenomic phylogenetic classification with interpolated Markov models}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1358}, volume = {6}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5406340 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5406340 N2 - Metagenomics projects collect DNA from uncharacterized environments that may contain thousands of species per sample. One main challenge facing metagenomic analysis is phylogenetic classification of raw sequence reads into groups representing the same or similar taxa, a prerequisite for genome assembly and for analyzing the biological diversity of a sample. New sequencing technologies have made metagenomics easier, by making sequencing faster, and more difficult, by producing shorter reads than previous technologies. Classifying sequences from reads as short as 100 base pairs has until now been relatively inaccurate, requiring researchers to use older, long-read technologies. We present Phymm, a classifier for metagenomic data, that has been trained on 539 complete, curated genomes and can accurately classify reads as short as 100 base pairs, a substantial improvement over previous composition-based classification methods. We also describe how combining Phymm with sequence alignment algorithms improves accuracy. IS - 9 JF - Nature Methods SN - 1548-7091 EP - 676 TI - Phymm and PhymmBL: metagenomic phylogenetic classification with interpolated Markov models PB - Nature Publishing Group VL - 6 SP - 673 KW - binning KW - metagenomics AU - Brady, Arthur AU - Salzberg, Steven PY - 2009/08/02/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1358 ER -