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Methods for fast sequence comparison and identification in metagenomic data
Kupková, Kristýna ; Škutková, Helena (oponent) ; Sedlář, Karel (vedoucí práce)
The objective of this thesis is to create a method for identification of organisms in metagenomic data. Until this point methods based on sequence alignment with reference database have been sufficient for this purpose. However, the volume of data grows rapidly with evolvement of sequencing techniques and the alignment-based methods became inconvenient due to computationally demanding alignment. A new technique is introduced in this master’s thesis, which allows alignment-free metagenomic data classification. The method is based on transformation of sequences to genomic signals in form of phase representation, from which feature vectors are extracted. These features are three Hjorth descriptors, which are then subjected expectation maximization for Gaussian mixture model method allowing reliable binning of metagenomic data.
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Alignment-free Methods for Classification of Metagenomic Data
Vaněčková, Tereza
Metagenomics studies microbial communities by analyzing their genomic content directly sequenced from the environment. In this contribution, alignment-free methods based on word frequency will be introduced. It has been proven, that these methods are effective in processing of short metagenomic sequence reads produced by Next-Generation Sequencing technologies. To evaluate the potential of word frequency based methods, the k-mer analysis was applied on simulated dataset of metagenomic sequence reads with length of 600 nucleotides. Then the data were enrolled for a hierarchical cluster analysis. Results have shown that the proposed method is able to cluster genome fragments of the same taxa.
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Methods for fast sequence comparison and identification in metagenomic data
Kupková, Kristýna ; Škutková, Helena (oponent) ; Sedlář, Karel (vedoucí práce)
The objective of this thesis is to create a method for identification of organisms in metagenomic data. Until this point methods based on sequence alignment with reference database have been sufficient for this purpose. However, the volume of data grows rapidly with evolvement of sequencing techniques and the alignment-based methods became inconvenient due to computationally demanding alignment. A new technique is introduced in this master’s thesis, which allows alignment-free metagenomic data classification. The method is based on transformation of sequences to genomic signals in form of phase representation, from which feature vectors are extracted. These features are three Hjorth descriptors, which are then subjected expectation maximization for Gaussian mixture model method allowing reliable binning of metagenomic data.
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