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Effect of the mutation rate and background size on the quality of pathogen identification
Authors:Reed Chris  Fofanov Viacheslav  Putonti Catherine  Chumakov Sergei  Slezak Tom  Fofanov Yuriy
Affiliation:Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 501 Philip G. Hoffman Hall, Houston, TX 77204, USA.
Abstract:
MOTIVATION: Genomic-based methods have significant potential for fast and accurate identification of organisms or even genes of interest in complex environmental samples (air, water, soil, food, etc.), especially when isolation of the target organism cannot be performed by a variety of reasons. Despite this potential, the presence of the unknown, variable and usually large quantities of background DNA can cause interference resulting in false positive outcomes. RESULTS: In order to estimate how the genomic diversity of the background (total length of all of the different genomes present in the background), target length and target mutation rate affect the probability of misidentifications, we introduce a mathematical definition for the quality of an individual signature in the presence of a background based on its length and number of mismatches needed to transform the signature into the closest subsequence present in the background. This definition, in conjunction with a probabilistic framework, allows one to predict the minimal signature length required to identify the target in the presence of different sizes of backgrounds and the effect of the target's mutation rate on the quality of its identification. The model assumptions and predictions were validated using both Monte Carlo simulations and real genomic data examples. The proposed model can be used to determine appropriate signature lengths for various combinations of target and background genome sizes. It also predicted that any genomic signatures will be unable to identify target if its mutation rate is >5%. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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