A divide-and-conquer approach to fragment assembly |
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Authors: | Otu Hasan H Sayood Khalid |
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Affiliation: | University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Electrical Engineering, 209N WSEC, 68503, USA. otu@eecomm.unl.edu |
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Abstract: | MOTIVATION: One of the major problems in DNA sequencing is assembling the fragments obtained by shotgun sequencing. Most existing fragment assembly techniques follow the overlap-layout-consensus approach. This framework requires extensive computation in each phase and becomes inefficient with increasing number of fragments. RESULTS: We propose a new algorithm which solves the overlap, layout, and consensus phases simultaneously. The fragments are clustered with respect to their Average Mutual Information (AMI) profiles using the k-means algorithm. This removes the unnecessary burden of considering the collection of fragments as a whole. Instead, the orientation and overlap detection are solved efficiently, within the clusters. The algorithm has successfully reconstructed both artificial and real data. Availability: Available on request from the authors. |
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