Long read sequencing technologies allow for complete microbial genome reconstruction from metagenomic samples. Single molecule long reads from PacBio and nanopore provide contigs but have high error rates. Synthetic long reads from 10X Genomics and other linked read methods generate more accurate scaffolds. While high DNA input requirements and extraction challenges remain, long reads are promising for de novo assembly, structural variation detection, and resolving complex populations without cultivation.
ASM Microbe 2017: Reaching the Parts Other Methods Can't: Long Reads for Microbial Genomics and Metagenomics
1. Reaching the Parts Other Methods
Can’t: Long Reads for Microbial
Genomics and Metagenomics
Prof Nick Loman
Institute of Microbiology and Infection
University of Birmingham
2. COI Disclaimer:
Oxford Nanopore Technologies provided free of charge reagents in support
of some of the studies presented here and paid an honorarium for NJL to
speak at a company meeting.
3. Why bother with long reads?
• De novo assembly
– Generate finished references for resequencing projects
– Detection of large scale structural variation
– Plasmid, IS element, reconstruction
– Metagenomics
• Metabarcoding
– Full length amplicons (16S, 18S, …)
• Haplotyping
– Amplicons
– Strain reconstruction in complex mixtures
5. Long read technologies
• Single molecule
– Contigs
– Noisy (5-15% error)
– Best for assembly
• Synthetic/linked
– Scaffolds
– Very accurate
– Best for haplotyping
6. 10X Genomics
Chromium: 1m GemCodesGemCode: 100k GemCodes
James Hadfield, CRUK
Very low input requirement (1ng)
Long fragments needed >50kb
5 minute processing time
17. In field whole-genome sequencing
MRSA
S. pyogenes
900Mb 1D rapid
P. aeruginosa
E. faecium
Bandage by Ryan Wick
4.4Gb 1D ligation
18.
19. Whale watching with nanopore
• Sambrook
• Excess of DNA (>10ug)
• V. careful pipetting
• Aim <1 transposase cut per molecule Picture from Phil Zuzerte
20. Total bases:
5,014,576,373 (5Gb)
Number of reads:
150,604
N50: 63,747
Mean: 33,296.44
http://lab.loman.net/2017/03/09/ultrareads-for-nanopore/
Whale watching: E. coli
26. What’s coming next?
• Combined single molecule and linked read
hybrid metagenomic assemblies?
• New methods for long fragment extraction from
microbiome studies
• Hi-C to link chromosomes w/ plasmids, phage
• Much higher outputs
27. Conclusions
• Long reads and synthetic long reads promising for
whole-genome reconstruction from metagenomics
• Synthetic long reads (10X and/or hybrid) will be useful
for detecting low abundance members of population
• Issues:
– Very high input requirements may be challenging for certain
applications, e.g. diagnostics from clinical samples
– Extraction of high molecular weight DNA from mixed samples
tricky; no one size fits all solution
– Cost remains prohibitive for very deep sequencing
28. Acknowledgements
– Josh Quick (Birmingham)
– 10X:
• Pablo Fuentes-Utrilla (Birmingham)
• Bryan Wee, Ross Fitzgerald (Roslin)
• James Hadfield (CRUK)
– Nanopore human genome sequencing consortium
– Pseudomonas
• Nicola Cumley, Beryl Oppenheim
29. Synthetic long reads
• Moleculo
– Long range amplification
– “Nextera on steroids”
– 500ng input
– Size selection required
http://www.illumina.com/products/truseq-synthetic-long-read-kit.ilmn
Editor's Notes
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