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Transcriptomic analysis of Mesocestoides corti
Korená, Lucie ; Leontovyč, Roman (advisor) ; Převorovský, Martin (referee)
Some species of parasites, including helminths, can inhibit carcinogenesis in their hosts. The antitumoral effect has been discovered in the tapeworms Taenia crassiceps and Echinococcus granulosus, which genes associated with cancer regression have been identified. The effect of melanoma suppression has also been observed in tapeworm Mesocestoides corti by the Laboratory of Helminthology, Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, however the mechanism-of-action, remains unknown. For the upcoming research it was essential to have the complex molecular data such as transcriptome of the developmental stage s of M. corti. This work is focused on the transcriptomic profiling of the tapeworm M. corti and the differential gene expression in two different strains of murine hosts (inbred and outbred) using the RNA-Seq. The main goal was to identify upregulated transcripts in the tapeworms from the murine hosts that could have a potential effect on cancer regression. Differential gene expression analysis was performed, and the results showed that tapeworms in murine hosts (regardless of strain) had more upregulated transcripts than tapeworms cultured in vitro. Analysis of highly upregulated transcripts in the tapeworms that were grown in the murine hosts identified several...
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Construction and quality assessment of the genome assemblies
Korená, Lucie ; Leontovyč, Roman (advisor) ; Vorel, Jiří (referee)
Detailed information of the genome of the studied organism is crucial for many fields of modern research. Actual sequencing technologies are not able to read the whole DNA molecule at once therefore only fragments of the genetic information are obtained, which are not sufficiently informative on their own. The goal of the genomic-bioinformatic approach is to assemble these fragments into complete original information - genome assembly. The process of the genome assembly is demanding in terms of computational power, software equipment and expert staff. Many assemblers - programs for genome assembly are available differing in performance, size of the analyzed genome or target organism. The quality of final assembly is fully dependent on assembler and setting of inner parameters. In practice, multiple assemblies are constructed and their quality evaluated according to the technical and biological parameters. The presented thesis describes current high throughput sequencing technologies, different approaches and algorithms for genome assembly and methodology for their quality assessment. The practical part is focused on assembly and its quality assessment using Illumina data of the bird fluke Trichobilharzia szidati.
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