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Jointly aligning a group of DNA reads improves accuracy of identifying large deletions

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Performing sequence alignment to identify structural variants, such as large deletions, from genome se-quencing data is a fundamental task, but current methods are far from perfect. The current practice is to independently align each DNA read to a reference genome. We show that the propensity of ge-nomic rearrangements to accumulate in repeat-rich regions imposes severe ambiguities in these alignments , and consequently on the variant calls––with current read lengths, this affects more than one third of known large deletions in the C. Venter genome. We present a method to jointly align reads to a genome, whereby alignment ambiguity of one read can be disambiguated by other reads. We show this leads to a significant improvement in the accuracy of identifying large deletions (≥20 bases), while imposing minimal computational overhead and maintaining an overall running time that is at par with current tools. A software implementation is available as an open-source Python program called JRA at https://bitbucket.org/jointreadalignment/jra-src.
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hal-01727521 , version 1 (09-03-2018)

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Anish M S Shrestha, Martin C. Frith, Kiyoshi Asai, Hugues Richard. Jointly aligning a group of DNA reads improves accuracy of identifying large deletions. Nucleic Acids Research, 2018, 46 (3), pp.e18. ⟨10.1093/nar/gkx1175⟩. ⟨hal-01727521⟩
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