Comparative analysis of alignment tools for nanopore reads

Natasha Pavlovikj, Etsuko N. Moriyama, Jitender S. Deogun

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Abstract

Alignment of sequence reads is an important step of many bioinformatics workflows. While the alignment of short reads is well investigated, the alignment of long reads produced by third-generation sequencing technologies, such as Oxford Nanopore, is more challenging because they have high error rates (10-40%). Furthermore, due to their different algorithmic approaches, different tools produce varied alignments, significantly influencing the downstream analyses. In this study, we evaluated the performance of three alignment tools (LAST, GraphMap, and NanoBLASTer) using simulated nanopore reads. Although the three alignment strategies gave similar results (e.g., all close to 100% precision), GraphMap reported the longest alignments while LAST the shortest. However, GraphMap showed the lowest recall (90%) indicating high false negative rates. While GraphMap had the highest percentage of reads that were mapped to the correct reference regions, NanoBLASTer and especially LAST mapped the majority of the reads only partially correctly. Based on our multiple statistics, GraphMap had the best overall performance.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2017
EditorsIllhoi Yoo, Jane Huiru Zheng, Yang Gong, Xiaohua Tony Hu, Chi-Ren Shyu, Yana Bromberg, Jean Gao, Dmitry Korkin
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages169-174
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781509030491
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 15 2017
Event2017 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2017 - Kansas City, United States
Duration: Nov 13 2017Nov 16 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2017
Volume2017-January

Other

Other2017 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityKansas City
Period11/13/1711/16/17

Keywords

  • Oxford Nanopore
  • Third-generation sequencing
  • error rates
  • long-read alignment
  • precision
  • recall
  • resources

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Health Informatics

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