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Pandora: nucleotide-resolution bacterial pan-genomics with reference graphs

Abstract:
We present pandora, a novel pan-genome graph structure and algorithms for identifying variants across the full bacterial pan-genome. As much bacterial adaptability hinges on the accessory genome, methods which analyze SNPs in just the core genome have unsatisfactory limitations. Pandora approximates a sequenced genome as a recombinant of references, detects novel variation and pan-genotypes multiple samples. Using a reference graph of 578 Escherichia coli genomes, we compare 20 diverse isolates. Pandora recovers more rare SNPs than single-reference-based tools, is significantly better than picking the closest RefSeq reference, and provides a stable framework for analyzing diverse samples without reference bias.
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10.1186/s13059-021-02473-1

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BioMed Central
Journal:
Genome Biology More from this journal
Volume:
22
Article number:
267
Publication date:
2021-09-14
Acceptance date:
2021-08-19
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1474-760X
ISSN:
1474-7596
Pmid:
34521456


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