Comparative analysis of strategies for de novo transcriptome assembly in prokaryotes: streptomyces clavuligerus as a case study

The performance of software tools for de novo transcriptome assembly greatly depends on the selection of software parameters. Up to now, the development of de novo transcriptome assembly for prokaryotes has not been as remarkable as that for eukaryotes. In this contribution, Rockhopper2 was used to perform a comparative transcriptome analysis of Streptomyces clavuligerus exposed to diverse environmental conditions. The study focused on assessing the incidence of software parameters on software performance for the identification of differentially expressed genes as a final goal. For this, a statistical optimization was performed using the Transrate Assembly Score (TAS). TAS was also used for evaluating the software performance and for comparing it with related tools, e.g., Trinity. Transcriptome redundancy and completeness were also considered for this analysis. Rockhopper2 and Trinity reached a TAS value of 0.55092 and 0.58337, respectively. Trinity assembles transcriptomes with high redundancy, with 55.6% of transcripts having some duplicates. Additionally, we observed that the total number of differentially expressed genes (DEG) and their annotation greatly depends on the method used for removing redundancy and the tools used for transcript quantification. To our knowledge, this is the first work aimed at assessing de novo assembly software for prokaryotic organisms.

• Autores: Ríos Estepa, Rigoberto; Caicedo Montoya, Carlos Andrés; Yepes García, Jeferyd; Pinilla Mendoza, Laura Inés; Toro Navarro, León Felipe
• Tipo de recurso: Article of investigation
• Fecha de publicación: 2019
• Institución: Universidad de Antioquia
• Repositorio: Repositorio UdeA
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/46035
• Acceso en línea: https://hdl.handle.net/10495/46035
• Palabra clave: Secuenciación de Nucleótidos de Alto Rendimiento; High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing; Streptomyces; Células Procariotas; Prokaryotic Cells; Transcriptoma; Transcriptome; Trinity; Trinity (Software); https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D059014; https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013302; https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D011387; https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D059467
• Rights: openAccess
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/