Title | Vulcan: Improved long-read mapping and structural variant calling via dual-mode alignment. |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2021 |
Authors | Fu, Y, Mahmoud, M, Muraliraman, VVaibhav, Sedlazeck, FJ, Treangen, TJ |
Journal | Gigascience |
Volume | 10 |
Issue | 9 |
Date Published | 2021 Sep 24 |
ISSN | 2047-217X |
Keywords | Genome, Human, Genomics, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, Humans, Nanopores, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Software |
Abstract | BACKGROUND: Long-read sequencing has enabled unprecedented surveys of structural variation across the entire human genome. To maximize the potential of long-read sequencing in this context, novel mapping methods have emerged that have primarily focused on either speed or accuracy. Various heuristics and scoring schemas have been implemented in widely used read mappers (minimap2 and NGMLR) to optimize for speed or accuracy, which have variable performance across different genomic regions and for specific structural variants. Our hypothesis is that constraining read mapping to the use of a single gap penalty across distinct mutational hot spots reduces read alignment accuracy and impedes structural variant detection. FINDINGS: We tested our hypothesis by implementing a read-mapping pipeline called Vulcan that uses two distinct gap penalty modes, which we refer to as dual-mode alignment. The high-level idea is that Vulcan leverages the computed normalized edit distance of the mapped reads via minimap2 to identify poorly aligned reads and realigns them using the more accurate yet computationally more expensive long-read mapper (NGMLR). In support of our hypothesis, we show that Vulcan improves the alignments for Oxford Nanopore Technology long reads for both simulated and real datasets. These improvements, in turn, lead to improved accuracy for structural variant calling performance on human genome datasets compared to either of the read-mapping methods alone. CONCLUSIONS: Vulcan is the first long-read mapping framework that combines two distinct gap penalty modes for improved structural variant recall and precision. Vulcan is open-source and available under the MIT License at https://gitlab.com/treangenlab/vulcan. |
DOI | 10.1093/gigascience/giab063 |
Alternate Journal | Gigascience |
PubMed ID | 34561697 |
PubMed Central ID | PMC8463296 |
Grant List | UM1 HG008898 / HG / NHGRI NIH HHS / United States P01 AI152999 / AI / NIAID NIH HHS / United States |
Vulcan: Improved long-read mapping and structural variant calling via dual-mode alignment.
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