Nanopore sequencing and assembly of a human genome with ultra-long reads

Jain, Miten, Koren, Sergey, Miga, Karen H., Quick, Josh, Rand, Arthur C., Sasani, Thomas A., Tyson, John R., Beggs, Andrew D., Dilthey, Alexander T., Fiddes, Ian T., Malla, Sunir, Marriott, Hannah, Nieto, Tom, O'Grady, Justin, Olson, Hugh E., Pedersen, Brent S., Rhie, Arang, Richardson, Hollian, Quinlan, Aaron R., Snutch, Terrance P., Tee, Louise, Paten, Benedict, Phillippy, Adam M., Simpson, Jared T., Loman, Nicholas J. and Loose, Matthew (2018) Nanopore sequencing and assembly of a human genome with ultra-long reads. Nature Biotechnology, 36. 338–345. ISSN 1087-0156

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Abstract

We report the sequencing and assembly of a reference genome for the human GM12878 Utah/Ceph cell line using the MinION (Oxford Nanopore Technologies) nanopore sequencer. 91.2 Gb of sequence data, representing ∼30× theoretical coverage, were produced. Reference-based alignment enabled detection of large structural variants and epigenetic modifications. De novo assembly of nanopore reads alone yielded a contiguous assembly (NG50 ∼3 Mb). We developed a protocol to generate ultra-long reads (N50 > 100 kb, read lengths up to 882 kb). Incorporating an additional 5× coverage of these ultra-long reads more than doubled the assembly contiguity (NG50 ∼6.4 Mb). The final assembled genome was 2,867 million bases in size, covering 85.8% of the reference. Assembly accuracy, after incorporating complementary short-read sequencing data, exceeded 99.8%. Ultra-long reads enabled assembly and phasing of the 4-Mb major histocompatibility complex (MHC) locus in its entirety, measurement of telomere repeat length, and closure of gaps in the reference human genome assembly GRCh38.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Medical Microbiology (former - to 2018)
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	19 Dec 2017 06:07
Last Modified:	21 Oct 2022 17:32
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/65756
DOI:	10.1038/nbt.4060

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