De novo whole-genome assembly of a wild type yeast isolate using nanopore sequencing

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Hans J JansenHerman P Spaink

Abstract

Background: The introduction of the MinION TM sequencing device by Oxford Nanopore Technologies may greatly accelerate whole genome sequencing. It has been shown that the nanopore sequence data, in combination with other sequencing technologies, is highly useful for accurate annotation of all genes in the genome. However, it also offers great potential for de novo assembly of complex genomes without using other technologies. In this manuscript we used nanopore sequencing as a tool to classify yeast strains. Methods: We compared various technical and software developments for the nanopore sequencing protocol, showing that the R9 chemistry is, as predicted, higher in quality than R7.3 chemistry. The R9 chemistry is an essential improvement for assembly of the extremely AT-rich mitochondrial genome. Results: In this study, we used this new technology to sequence and de novo assemble the genome of a recently isolated ethanologenic yeast strain, and compared the results with those obtained by classical Illumina short read sequencing. This strain was originally named Candida vartiovaarae ( Torulopsis vartiovaarae) based on ribosomal RNA sequencing. We show that the assembly using nanopore data is much more contiguous than the assembl...Continue Reading

Datasets Mentioned

BETA
DG000077.1
CBS1600
CDQK00000000.1
KC993190.1
KY102493

Methods Mentioned

BETA
whole genome shotgun sequencing
PCR
electrophoresis
one hybrid

Software Mentioned

FastQC
HiSeq control HCS )
MUMmerplot
real time analysis ( RTA )
MinKNOW
TULIP
Canu assembler
BUSCO
mem
MUMmer

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