The Arabidopsis information resource (TAIR): gene structure and function annotation. 2009;25(9):110511. For real datasets, since its hard to judge if a reconstructed transcript is a false positive one or an unknown transcript yet to be discovered. All benchmark datasets used in this study are available from: http://bioinfolab.unl.edu/emlab/consemble/. Compared to individual genome-guided methods, TransBorrow did not show significantly different assembly performance. We also showed the importance of developing realistic simulated RNAseq benchmark datasets that allow evaluating the performance of transcriptome assemblers under various conditions. Essentially it still applies de novo assembly, but to smaller regions. The reference genome was from Urasaki et al. The results presented so far are based on the numbers of correctly assembled contigs where the assembled sequences need to be fully 100% identical to the reference protein sequences. Article De-novo transcriptome assembly: Trinity; Closing remarks (D) Exon A1 and A2 are connected because therere read alignments (green color) crossing them. All authors read, discussed, and approved the manuscript. (, Accuracy comparisons of the assemblers on the four real data sets at the gene level. 2017;14(2):1359. Among the de novo assembly-based ensemble methods, EvidentialGene assembled the most BUSCOs but the fewest Araport-matching contigs and had the lowest RSEM-EVAL score. The numbers of correctly (black) and incorrectly (red) assembled contigs are shown. Article A reference-based or genome-guided transcriptome assembly algorithm uses alignments of reads to the genome that are produced by a specialized spliced-alignment tool, such as TopHat2 (ref. Based on the blat result, we consider a reconstructed transcript r Trec to be a false positive if it is below 90% matched with any reference transcript t Tref. Among the de novo assemblers, only Trinity produced a comparable number of BUSCOs. This may also explain lower than expected levels of performance observed with all assemblers especially when isoforms were included in the test datasets. Google Scholar. PLOS ONE promises fair, rigorous peer review, This is done to minimize the risk of including any chimera or over-assembled sequences. Contigs that did not match completely any of the isoforms included in the benchmark dataset were counted as incorrectly assembled (FP). For the hexaploidal cotton (G. hirsutum), all methods produced significantly more contigs than the 70,478 transcripts reported (except TransBorrow where the assembly largely failed). ConSemble assembly can be performed based on a smaller or larger number of the assembly overlap. 2021 Dec 20;1(2):114-125. doi: 10.1515/mr-2021-0016. Article Privacy The oracle set contains reference transcripts that are fully covered by reads (tolerated by 25 bp from both ends). Genome Res. We also use 183.53M Illuminar pair end reads (100-bp) sampled from HEK293T (Kidney) cells (SRX541227) previously produced and studied in StringTie [17]. Known paths are collected when a read alignment crosses more than two nodes, or a read pair alignment for an augmented edge involves more than two nodes (also illustrated in Fig 5D). Here the reference transcripts for HESC have relatively simple isoform multiplicity (most equals to 1), so we group reference transcripts into about 70, 15 and 15 percentile, while the reference transcripts for LC and Kidney datasets are grouped into 20 percentile each. In the hexaploid cotton assembly, the quality of the ConSemble assembly deteriorated noticeably. Since the result may contain noise, we also need to do some thresholding to get a sparse solution. Consider for each node v, we have m n possible flows (m = |InEdges(v)|, n = |OutEdges(v)|). Three datasets were used for the assembly of real RNAseq data. 2014;15:293. PLoS ONE 15(6): Four transcriptome assembly methods, either de novo or genome-guided, are used to generate four "contig libraries", each containing the unique protein sequences produced by each method. Holding ML, Margres MJ, Mason AJ, Parkinson CL, Rokyta DR. A large majority (6489%) of contigs produced by all four of the de novo assemblers were correctly assembled regardless of the test dataset, which is 7083% of all correctly assembled contigs. PubMed Central For M. charantia, all ensemble methods including TransBorrow recovered more BUSCOs than de novo assemblers. Transcripts are distinguished from the reference genome by Cufflinks [ 17 ], and supporting . It is discussed further below. In addition RefShannon has utilized pair end reads to supplement additional edge and path information so that an originally disconnected transcript could be found. Here f0 means the support set of {fi,j}, or the number of positive fi,js. We need to enumerate all 2mn path combinations to figure out which combination offers us min f0 and keeps the edge weight constraints. The transcriptome for the Human dataset was based on the HG38 reference genome and transcriptome. (2) We only use the oracle set of reference transcripts (statistics in Table 1) for each real dataset. The edge weights are abundance, calculated by the number of supporting reads. From a total of 47,915 unique . Araport11: a complete reannotation of the Arabidopsis thaliana reference genome. Informed kmer selection for de novo transcriptome assembly. The x-axis of each subplot in left column is read coverage, and the x-axis of each subplot in right column is isoform multiplicity. By taking the consensus contig set from four contig libraries, both ConSemble3+d and ConSemble3+g reduce the number of incorrectly assembled contigs significantly. F1000Res. Database resources of the National Center for Biotechnology. S4, we examined how the assembly performance is affected by expression levels of transcripts. genome as a reference. Transcriptional noise [51, 52], sequencing artifacts [53] and transcript isoforms originating from alternative splicing [54, 55] are also represented in these data. RNAseq simulations and genome-guided assemblies of the A. thaliana accession Columbia (Col-0) were based on the TAIR reference genome (version 9) [36] and the atRTD transcriptome dataset (version 3) [37]. For example, given that AC, CE, BC, CD have weights 1, 1, 4, 4 respectively, were confident to decompose the graph into two paths as ACE and BCD. Smith-Unna R, Boursnell C, Patro R, Hibberd JM, Kelly S. TransRate: reference-free quality assessment of de novo transcriptome assemblies. The experimental design we used to evaluate the assembly performance is summarized in Additional file 2: Table S2. Genome guided transcriptome assembly: Checking encoding version and fastq quality score format; Trimmomatic (trimming reads) Tophat (splice-aware mapping reads to genome) Stringtie (Assembling reads into transcripts) 2. For many model species, such as Homo sapiens and Mus musculus, a large portion of their transcriptome has been annotated in reference databases such as the NCBI RefSeq, and the effective use of these known reference transcripts may be highly useful for accurately identifying expressed . Concatenation originally used three assemblers, Trinity, IDBA-Tran, and CLC (https://www.qiagenbioinformatics.com/), with only one kmer length each [17]. By utilizing consensus information, the ConSemble approach successfully recovered many of these transcripts without increasing the number of incorrectly assembled contigs (FP), improving the overall assembly performance. Therefore, to obtain the complete transcriptome assembly, multiple assemblers often need to be used with a broad parameter space [8,9,10,11,12,13]. RNA-seq technology is widely used in various transcriptomic studies and provides great opportunities to reveal the complex structures of transcriptomes. Evaluation of de novo transcriptome assemblies from RNA-Seq data. Epub 2020 Aug 17. The genome-guided assemblers performed surprisingly poorly for this dataset (Additional file 2: Table S7). For each dataset under various isoform multiplicity regions, RefShannon has also recovered more reference transcripts than all other assemblers. Source codes and test data are freely available at: http://bioinfolab.unl.edu/emlab/consemble/. Therefore, the availability of computational resources could become a limiting factor for deciding the number of assemblies ConSemble can utilize. The performance of ConSemble applied to the genome-guided assemblies (ConSemble3+g) is compared with another genome-guided ensemble assembler TransBorrow [18] as well as individual genome-guided assemblers in Fig. We attribute this to the careful utilization of transcript abundances while performing assembly in Shannon. We instead used the number of genes identified from the "Eudicotyledons" dataset of BUSCO [20] to evaluate the thoroughness of each assembly. This review begins with a summary of two main-stream methods of lineage tracing, namely image-based methods and genomic barcoding methods (Table 1).Our discussion will focus more on the newly developed genomic barcoding methods, while the analysis of image-based methods will be described in just enough detail to illustrate the advantages and disadvantages of barcoding-based CLTs in comparison . In contrast, ConSemble3+g showed significant reduction in miss-assembly (FP) without sacrificing correct assembly (TP). The results showed that some contigs were assembled correctly only by either genome-guided or de novo assemblers (Fig. Statistics have shown that less than 0.01% of introns are smaller than 20 bp in length [41], so a gap within 10 bp is highly unlikely intronic but should be an uncovered exonic region. HHS Vulnerability Disclosure, Help TransBorrow was tested on both simulated and real data sets and showed great superiority over all the compared leading assemblers. Transcriptome Assembly Introductory guide to transcriptome assembly using Trinity and short-read sequencing data. As expected, this approach increased TP for all assemblers (Additional file 2: Table S5; Recall>0.67 for Test 1,>0.60 for Test 2, and>0.52 for Test 3). For EvidentialGene (version 2017.03.09) [9], we chose the "okay" nucleotide contig set (okay.fa and okalt.fa) produced by the tr2aacds.pl pipeline as the final output for our comparative analysis. We then use RSEM [33] to learn parameters from each real dataset based on the alignments of real reads onto the reference transcripts. Among the four genome-guided assemblers, only Bayesembler identified up to seven isoforms correctly, although the success rates were not very high (Additional file 3: Fig. TahcoRoll: fast genomic signature profiling via thinned automaton and rolling hash. 2023 BioMed Central Ltd unless otherwise stated. This makes the overall assembly time roughly equivalent to the time needed for the longest individual assembly reducing the necessary computational time significantly. PLoS ONE. Maretty L, Sibbesen JA, Krogh A. Bayesian transcriptome assembly. Methods. Google Scholar. Genome Biol. However, our simulation study showed that they also had many incorrectly assembled contigs that decreased the overall assembly accuracy. We presented ConSemble, a new consensus-based ensemble transcriptome assembly approach. The isoform assembly performance is compared further in Additional file 2: Table S4. Nat Biotechnol. Therefore, we group the reference transcripts into read coverage of 60, 10, 10, 10 and 10 percentile. However, with this approach, there are tradeoffs with the choice of the kmer length. For A. thaliana Col-0, all ensemble assemblers except TransBorrow produced more contigs that matched Araport sequences and BUSCOs and had slightly better RSEM-EVAL scores than the de novo assemblers. From each cluster, it selects contigs including the longest CDS for the main set and those with distinct shorter CDS's for the alternative set. By using this website, you agree to our PLOS is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation, #C2354500, based in San Francisco, California, US. Of note is that all the de novo assemblies had higher accuracy compared to the genome-guided assemblies generated with the reference differing from the strain sequenced. Both of these ensemble methods filter the contigs generated by multiple assemblers (usually de novo) by clustering the contigs and determining the representative contig based on both the entire nucleotide and predicted protein sequences. 2019;20(1):278. Furthermore, for all test datasets, the number of contigs that were incorrectly assembled by all four assemblers was consistently small (0.21.1% of all incorrectly assembled contigs). To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Based on splice graphs, RefShannon applies a sparse flow decomposition algorithm, originally proposed in [24], to reconstruct the minimum number of flow paths (as assembled transcriptome) that satisfy node and edge constraints. Overall RefShannon shows higher sensitivity at a given false positive ratio than other assemblers. While the total numbers of contigs produced were similar to the corresponding test results with the same reference genomes (Tests 4, 6, and 8), the correctness of the contigs was greatly diminished (e.g., F<0.34) where, on average, only 32% of the assembled contigs were correct (Precision) and only 33% of the benchmark transcripts were recovered (Recall). We further compared the contigs generated by the four genome-guided assemblers with those generated by the four de novo assemblers. Several genome-guided transcript assembly algorithms have emerged over the past few years that address all of these challenges, albeit in different ways. For the No0-NoAlt dataset, it achieved a very high Precision (0.90). The performance of all these assemblers was considerably worse when a non-identical reference genome was used as the reference (Additional file 2: Tests 5, 7, and 9 in Table S7). RNA-Bloom enables reference-free and reference-guided sequence assembly for single-cell transcriptomes. Exon B and C shall be merged if their gap is small. -, Au KF, Jiang H, Lin L, Xing Y, Wong WH. For HESC, the reference transcripts are grouped into 20 percentile each. Grabherr MG, Haas BJ, Yassour M, Levin JZ, Thompson DA, Amit I, Adiconis X, Fan L, Raychowdhury R, Zeng Q, et al. Each contig assembly was evaluated based on the accuracy of the coded protein sequences in the ORFs predicted by ORFfinder [49]. Accessibility We developed a de novo transcriptome assembly pipeline shown in Supplementary Figure S1. 2012;19(5):45577. Numbers of assembled contigs shared between the four de novo assemblers. Note the oracle sets of reference transcripts are different among three datasets, so the group values per dataset are different. The authors declare that they have no competing interests. A lower read coverage implies less expression level of reference transcript in cells, and a higher isoform multiplicity implies more complex splicing patterns. In this study, we present a novel genome-guided assembler, TransBorrow, for transcriptome assembly using short RNA-seq reads. However, we found that the assembly results based on STAR mapping were comparable to those based on Tophat2 showing no clear advantage in using one aligner over the other. Among the three de novo ensemble assemblers, ConSemble3+d and Concatenation performs virtually the same in terms of identifying isoforms up to five (Additional file 3: Fig. Genes of the pig, Sus scrofa, reconstructed with EvidentialGene. This is the main motivation for this workto build a superior genome-guided assembler. Zhang J, Lin X, Chen Y, Li TH, Lee AC, Chow EY, Cho WC, Chan TF. 2016;17:13. Scallop and StringTie2, on the other hand, produced larger numbers of unique contigs recovering more benchmark transcripts as shown by the larger Recall values (>0.48). The pseudo code can be obtained from Algorithm 1 in S2 File. Comparative performance of transcriptome assembly methods for non-model organisms. AV wrote and tested the programs. Simulation-based comprehensive benchmarking of RNA-seq aligners. Epub 2022 Dec 3. The transcriptome assembly performance of ConSemble using the four de novo assemblers was compared against the four individual de novo assemblers as well as two other ensemble methods (EvidentialGene and Concatenation) that are also based on de novo assemblers. Part of RefShannon is written in Python and is available from Github (https://github.com/shunfumao/RefShannon). ConSemble3+d remained the best performing non-genome guided method for all three datasets. Fig 4 shows our sensitivity evaluation for the three (i.e. Exon D and E shall be merged if their gap is moderate but their coverage is high. 2016;11(4):e0153104. Consequently Cufflinks may throw away reads (especially pair end reads) of uncertain compatibility, while those read alignments can contain useful information to construct a more accurate graph. In the connect step (Fig 5D), we establish weighted edges among nodes and collect known path information. ConSemble3+dLong and ConSemble3+dHigh showed similar and much higher DETONATE scores indicating longer contigs are scored higher. Assembly performance was further tested using the real RNAseq data from three plant species. Mapping RNA-seq reads to transcriptomes efficiently based on learning to hash method. Shao M, Kingsford C. Accurate assembly of transcripts through phase-preserving graph decomposition. To evaluate the impact of using a different reference for this RNAseq library, the reads were also mapped to the HuaXia1 (HX1) reference genome (available from http://hx1.wglab.org). The experimental design we used to compare performance of transcriptome assembly is shown in Additional file 2: Table S2. Most of the current de novo assemblers, such as Trinity [6], rely on kmer decomposition of the reads, where kmers are substrings of length k, and de Bruijn graph construction [7]. 2020 Apr 1;176:14-24. doi: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2019.06.001. Among the genome-guided assemblers, Scallop and StringTie2 had similar numbers of BUSCOs as well as RSEM-EVAL scores, while the number of contigs produced by StringTie2 was close to the number reported for the reference transcriptome. We develop a novel genome-guided transcriptome assembler, RefShannon, that exploits the varying abundances of the different transcripts, in enabling an accurate reconstruction of the transcripts. It allowed us to compare transcriptome assembly performance among different approaches. This work has been supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. The remaining reads were normalized using Khmer [44] with a kmer length of 32, an expected coverage of 50x, and in paired-end mode. 1339385 to JS, EBC, and ENM and 1557417 to EBC and ENM. BMC Genom. 2015;33(3):2905. Pipeline schematics for generating benchmark transcriptomic data, assembly benchmarking, and ConSemble assemblies (Pipelines 14). More contigs were correctly identified uniquely by the de novo methods for other datasets (554 for Col0-Alt and 1,836 for HumanHG38) despite the reduced performance of the de novo assemblers on these datasets. In addition to the threshold of 90%, we have also tried other thresholds, and it does not affect our comparison conclusions (S5 File). Our analysis showed that without requiring a reference genome, ensemble de novo methods achieved the assembly performance comparable to or higher than that of individual genome-guided methods. 2017;89(4):789804. In contrast, while the large portion of the contigs that were assembled only by a single method were incorrect, the 4-way intersection set included only a small number of incorrect contigs (0.6~2%, shown in red letters). In these conceptual examples, each graph means a splice graph where nodes represent exonic regions and edges indicate there are reads aligned across the nodes. See Additional file 2: Tables S3 and S6 for details. The genome-guided assembly is the union set of the assemblies generated by the four genome-guided methods using the same reference genomes (Additional file 2: Tests 4, 6, and 8 in Table S2). While Concatenation produced a lower number of incorrectly assembled contigs (Precision=0.47) compared to Trinity, it did not achieve the accuracy level shown by Trinity (F=0.52 compared to 0.57 by Trinity). Additional comparisons among different assemblers. Differently, RefShannon has also applied these additional edge and path information in the graph decomposition stage so that certain assembly ambiguity can be resolved (Fig 2C). (C) RefShannon extracts known path information from read alignments to resolve decomposition ambiguity. Nat Biotechnol. Google Scholar. rnaSPAdes chooses the kmer length depending on the dataset. -, Behr J, Kahles A, Zhong Y, Sreedharan VT, Drewe P, Rtsch G. 2013. Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. 2016;32(11):16707. S1 right panel). Yu T, Mu Z, Fang Z, Liu X, Gao X, Liu J. TransBorrow: genome-guided transcriptome assembly by borrowing assemblies from different assemblers. One of the main ideas of RefShannon is to utilize the varying abundance information while traversing the splice graph (Fig 2A). Given a splice graph, it finds the minimum set of flows (e.g. Genome Res. Gigascience. When only two or more assembly overlap was required (ConSemble2+d and ConSemble2+g in Additional file 2: Tables S6 and S9), more correctly assembled contigs (TP) were recovered but at the cost of disproportionally more incorrectly assembled contigs (FP>>TP) leading to higher Recall but lower Precision than ConSemble3+(e.g., Recall=0.74 and 0.84 and Precision=0.27 and 0.79, respectively, for No0-NoAlt). Next-generation transcriptome assembly and analysis: impact of ploidy. Google Scholar. (B) RefShannon adopts a sparse flow algorithm that tries to find the minimum number of paths that explains edge weight constraints (e.g. If a genome sequence is available, Trinity offers a method whereby reads are first aligned to the genome, partitioned according to locus, followed by de novo transcriptome assembly at each locus. This selection represents a range of ploidies, which challenges transcriptome assembly methods. There are two flavors of the transcriptome assembly problem [8]: de novo assembly and genome-guided (or reference-based) assembly. For the three benchmark datasets, ConSemble3+d showed comparable accuracies to the genome-guided assemblers with ideal reference genomes and outperformed all individual de novo assemblers and the individual genome-guided assemblers without good reference genomes. Therere three real datasets (HESChuman embryonic stem cells, LCLymphoblastoid cells, Kidney) and three simulated datasets (HESC-Sim, LC-Sim, Kidney-Sim) used for evaluation. PLoS ONE. For G. hirsutum (upland cotton), an RNAseq dataset consisting of 117M 200bp read pairs was produced from RNA samples from leaves, roots, flowers, and seeds using Illumina HiSeq 4000 (NCBI: SRR7689126- SRR7689129). Compared to other leading assemblers on both simulated and real datasets, TransComb consistently performs the best. Two nodes are connected by a directed edge if there is a read alignment crossing one node to the other. The "Merged" assemblies in Additional file 2: Table S5 were used for the de novo assembly datasets. Genome Biol. As illustrated in Fig 2B, this will lead to incorrect assembly. Epub 2019 Nov 13. The similar goal of parsimonious assembly is pursued by Cufflinks [16], which as mentioned earlier is based on overlap graph and does not exploit abundance information. Isoforms, polyploidy, multigene families, and varying levels of gene expression, all contribute to complexity in transcriptome assembly. The assembly benchmarking process is summarized in the Additional file 1: Pipeline 2. PubMed Unauthorized use of these marks is strictly prohibited. [40] (NCBI: BDCS01000001BDCS01001052). Taking advantage of NGS technology, we sequenced and annotated the first fennel leaf transcriptome using material from four different lines and two different bioinformatic approaches: de novo and. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. To handle these difficulties and reconstruct transcriptome as completely as possible, current computational approaches mainly employ two strategies: de novo assembly and genome-guided assembly. Nat Biotechnol. Therefore, any contigs that are correctly assembled by only one or two assemblers are omitted from the final contig set. 2013;8(12):e85024. Article Nat Methods. Bethesda, MD 20894, Web Policies Compared with three leading assemblers of the same kind on both simulated and real data sets, TransBorrow consistently performs the best under commonly used criteria. Multiple reference genomes and transcriptomes for Arabidopsis thaliana. Assembled contig sequences were extracted using the gtf_to_fasta module from Tophat2. PubMed Further work is needed for identifying more correctly assembled contigs especially when multiple lowly expressed isoforms exist or in the case of polyploidies. We showed that the two currently available ensemble methods that focus on thoroughness of assemblies (higher recall) retain significantly high numbers of incorrectly assembled contigs. This helps resolve flow decomposition ambiguity, as will be discussed later. A comprehensive assembly pipeline and annotation lists are provided. Introduction RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) provides scientists with the ability to monitor genome-wide transcription across numerous cells or tissues and between experimental conditions in a rapid and affordable manner. This result suggests that the increased ploidy may decrease the likelihood that the true sequences are reconstructed by multiple de novo methods, consistent with the reduced overlap between de novo assemblers in simulated polyploidy benchmarks [33]. Three benchmark datasets were generated. Bioinformatics. The regular accuracy score, which is defined as (TP+TN)/(TP+FP+TN+FN), also requires TN and cannot be calculated. These genes have distinct regions called exons and introns [1, 2]. For all assemblies, only 7175% of the assembled contigs were correct (shown as Precision). Xie Y, Wu G, Tang J, Luo R, Patterson J, Liu S, Huang W, He G, Gu S, Li S, et al. 2021 Oct 21;22(1):513. doi: 10.1186/s12859-021-04434-8. In practice, this is stricter than necessary for many downstream analyses. Discover a faster, simpler path to publishing in a high-quality journal. Another benchmark dataset was generated from the human reference genome (HG38). This helps us find new RNA transcripts as well as their expression levels (or abundance) in order to better understand proteins and cells. rnaSPAdes: a de novo transcriptome assembler and its application to RNA-Seq data. Any ensemble method will necessarily be limited by the performance of the individual assemblies it is based on. S6 File. Fig 3 illustrates the ROC performance. 100 to 280 Euro per isolate) and have higher errors (typically 10% to 15%), whereas short reads are more cost-effective (e.g. with a second BBduk trimming step and contigs collapsed with CD-Hit-EST. Genome Res. Significant biological insights on stem cell. Similar to Concatenation, contigs that are fragments of other contigs are removed (D. Gilbert, personal communication). Assemblies were performed using Cufflinks 2.2.1 [14], Bayesembler 1.2.0 [26], Scallop 0.10.2 [27], and StringTie2 2.0 [29]. The PubMed wordmark and PubMed logo are registered trademarks of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The two nodes can be continuous, or discontinuous on the genome when theres a splice junction between them. Your US state privacy rights, When more than one isoform existed for a gene (Categories 37), often none (Category 3) or only one isoform (Category 4) could be correctly assembled by the de novo assemblers. The three benchmark datasets (No0-NoAlt, Col0-Alt, and Human HG38) were assembled by the four de novomethods. Abyss and 609 assemblies used MiSeq and HiSeq input data generated by Lane et al. S2). This approach has been proved in [24] to work toward optimal transcriptome assembly. AV and ENM conceived and designed the research. Despite the number of transcriptome assemblers available, there is still no single assembler or assembly strategy that performs best in all situations. 2012;7(3):56278. Bushmanova E, Antipov D, Lapidus A, Prjibelski AD. 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt442 However, obtaining good quality datasets that have been sequenced by both short- and long-read technologies, especially from many different organisms with various conditions, is not easy nor practical. government site. Peng Y, Leung HC, Yiu SM, Lv MJ, Zhu XG, Chin FY. Illustrations of splice graph generation. Nucleic Acids Res. We associate each reference transcript t Tref with a reconstructed transcript r Trec that mostly matches t. We then consider each t Tref is correctly recovered if it is over 90% matched with its associated r Trec. Although this does not affect the predicted open reading frame (ORF) and the coded protein sequence, it affects the overall contig length and potentially the sequence of the untranslated regions. e0232946. However, although ConSemble3+d recovered fewer isoforms especially for genes with five or more isoforms than Trinity, ConSemble3+d performed significantly better than other individual de novo assemblers in terms of isoform identification (Additional file 3: Fig. Med Rev (Berl). For simulated datasets (HESC-Sim, LC-Sim, Kidney-Sim in Table 1), since we know the ground truth reference transcripts, we check the performance of receiver operating characteristic curves (ROC), which includes sensitivity as well as false positive. Although all redundant contigs and those with no predicted protein product are excluded from the final assembly, these contigs are saved in separate files and available for additional analyses. Cite this article. 2014;15(12):553. Precision shows the proportion of correctly assembled contigs relative to all assembled contigs. Moreover, TransBorrow could assemble a surprisingly small number of contigs (<12%) from the Col0-Alt dataset (Test 6). Recently Kannan et al [24] developed an assembler called Shannon assembler that utilized principles from information theory to solve the de novo transcriptome assembly problem, and demonstrated benefits over state-of-the-art assemblers. For example, a 100-bp read could be split-aligned onto the genome (chromosome 15) at loci [78837259, 78837318] and loci [78837519, 78837558], then we consider there is a splice junction at locus 78837318 (as splice donor) and at locus 78837519 (as splice acceptor). Gigascience. Data Availability: All relevant data are within the manuscript and its Supporting Information files. 5 and Additional file 2: Table S9. Trinity, for example, assembled 4151% of the contigs correctly (Precision) and recovered 5064% of benchmark transcripts (Recall) (Additional file 2: Table S3), while all the genome-guided assemblers showed lower than 38% for these statistics. S1 left panel), it also limits the ability of ConSemble3+g to identify multiple isoforms especially for genes with five or more isoforms. The outlined region represents where the shared correct and incorrect contigs were counted for the ConSemble3+d assembly (shown as TP and FP in Additional file 2: Table S6). -, Bray NL, Pimentel H, Melsted P, Pachter L. 2016. The difference is (1) For fair evaluation of sensitivity, we run assemblers all in their max sensitivity settings (detailed configurations in S4 File). These observations indicate that by utilizing such consensus information, it is possible to increase the number of correctly assembled contigs and at the same time reduce the number of incorrectly assembled contigs, improving the overall assembly performance. LAFITE Reveals the Complexity of Transcript Isoforms in Subcellular Fractions. For Concatenation, contigs that contain only portions of longer contigs (without allowing any nucleotide change) are clustered and removed. It is also noteworthy that some contigs were correctly assembled only by one assembler. The remaining de novo assemblers produced far fewer BUSCOs despite the high numbers of contigs assembled, suggesting high false positives. Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative. 2015;4:900. Lior Pachter, One of them is to further improve the computational efficiency as described previously. Each method was also run with a range of kmer lengths (k) with increments (i) as follows: IDBA-Tran with k=2060 and i=10, SOAPdenovo-Trans with k=1575 and i=4, rnaSPAdes with k=1971 and i=4, and Trinity with k=1931 and i=4. For each dataset, we first use STAR aligner [25] to align reads onto reference genome (human genome hg19, downloaded from http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenpath/hg19/bigZips/) that contains multiple chromosomes. sharing sensitive information, make sure youre on a federal For all benchmark datasets, ConSemble3+g assembly showed balanced and high accuracy (F=0.82, 0.67, and 0.52 for the No0-NoAlt, Col0-Alt, and HG38 datasets, respectively), which was consistently better than TransBorrow as well as individual genome-guided methods. See this image and copyright information in PMC. Sreeram Kannan, Affiliation: doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004772. When isoforms were not included (the No0-NoAlt dataset), of 20,263 contigs produced by ConSemble3+d (107% of the reference), 13,352 were correctly assembled (Precision=0.66 and Recall=0.71), achieving the highest F score (0.68) among any de novo approach including both individual and ensemble methods. Epub 2022 Oct 25. This task is complicated due to the complexity of alternative splicing - a mechanism by which the same gene may generate multiple distinct RNA transcripts. It provides the only means of assessing the accuracy of the transcripts assembled directly and quantitatively. This approach does not account for biologically important alternative splice events in the UTRs, which can affect protein trafficking or translation without affecting protein sequences. Bioinformatics. BMC Bioinformatics 22, 513 (2021). RefShannon will take the read alignment as input, generate splice graphs, and apply a novel sparse flow decomposition algorithm to recover the transcriptome as i {1, 2, 3}. Further benchmarking studies incorporating varied ploidies are necessary to determine the extent and impact of this issue. However, as the number of de novo assemblers sharing a unique contig sequence increased, the likelihood that the contig was correctly assembled also increased. PubMed Central There are several future directions. Compared to the short RNA reads (e.g. While a core set of transcripts is more likely to be assembled correctly by multiple assemblers, many other transcripts may be missed depending on which specific algorithm and kmer length (for a de novo method) or read mapper (for a genome-guided method) are used. Wheeler DL, Church DM, Federhen S, Lash AE, Madden TL, Pontius JU, Schuler GD, Schriml LM, Sequeira E, Tatusova TA, et al. IDBA-tran: a more robust de novo de Bruijn graph assembler for transcriptomes with uneven expression levels. As described before, EvidentialGene and Concatenation cluster the contigs and choose the representatives for the final assemblies. For each dataset under various read coverage conditions, RefShannon has recovered reference transcripts better than all other assemblers. http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenpath/hg19/bigZips/, https://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenpath/help/blatSpec.html, http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2017/7658, Corrections, Expressions of Concern, and Retractions. The Human RNAseq simulations were based on the HG38 reference genome and transcriptome [39; GCF_000001405.39]. The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the In: Adburakhmonov IY, editor. For the individual de novo assemblers, results shown were obtained with their default settings. Alhakami H, Mirebrahim H, Lonardi S. 2017. Zerbino DR, Birney E. Velvet: algorithms for de novo short read assembly using de Bruijn graphs. Consequently, guided Trinity is computationally much more complicated (S7 File). ConSemble for de novo methods requires multiple different assemblers to run multiple times over a range of kmer lengths. Khan S, Kortelainen M, Cceres M, Williams L, Tomescu AI. Griebel T, Zacher B, Ribeca P, Raineri E, Lacroix V, Guigo R, Sammeth M. Modelling and simulating generic RNA-Seq experiments with the flux simulator. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The complexity of dealing with alternative splice forms is evident from the decreased performance of all four assemblers even when using the same genome as the reference (Additional file 2: Tests 6 and 8 in Table S7). 2016. If we follow a greedy approach (as used by StringTie) that iteratively finds and remove the heaviest path, we will get an inaccurate transcript ACD first. The source codes, benchmark datasets, and other datasets used and analyzed in this study are available from: http://bioinfolab.unl.edu/emlab/consemble/. 2014;30(12):16606. J Comput Biol. For genome-guided assembly, in addition to the observed reads there is also knowledge of the genome of the organism. De novotranscriptome assembly. Martin JA, Wang Z. Next-generation transcriptome assembly. Nip KM, Chiu R, Yang C, Chu J, Mohamadi H, Warren RL, Birol I. Genome Res. 2012;22(6):118495. Another situation to augment edges may occur only for pair end reads. We have also compared RefShannon to guided Trinity [12] and recently published Ryuto [20], as they show relatively good performance among various assemblers in our initial analysis using smaller datasets (S3 File). Numbers of assembled contigs shared between de novo and genome-guided assemblies. The proportion of transcripts in each bin correctly assembled is determined by the number of benchmark transcripts with at least one exact match (full length with no gaps or mismatches) in an assembly divided by the total number of transcripts in the bin. Flowchart of the TransBorrow algorithm. As the overall work flow is described in Results, in this section, we will describe the graph generation and traversal steps of RefShannon. When a reference genome is available, ConSemble using four genome-guided assemblies removed many incorrectly assembled contigs with minimal impact on correctly assembled contigs, achieving higher precision and accuracy than individual genome-guided methods. Voshall A, Moriyama EN. The constructed graph is consistent with the reference genome, similar to Cufflinks, Stringtie and Ryuto. The number of correctly assembled contigs identified at varied thresholds are shown in Additional file 3: Fig. Lastly, we also discuss its computational complexity. We thus demonstrated that the ConSemble consensus strategy both for de novo and genome-guided assemblers can improve transcriptome assembly. J Comput Biol. It is also possible that the local sparse flow decomposition may bring two results that have the same lowest sparsity and satisfy the edge constraints. Rows and columns are based on the simulated RNAseq dataset and the reference genome used for the transcriptome assembly, respectively. Numbers of assembled contigs shared between the four genome-guided assemblers. However, EvidentialGene produced more than ten times the number of sequences in the reference transcriptome and had a lower RSEM-EVAL score. Using these simulated benchmark datasets as well as the real RNAseq data, and using also various accuracy metrics, we performed a thorough assessment of currently available methods based on various assembly conditions. These trends were consistent in the Col0-Alt and HG38 benchmark datasets as well (Additional file 2: Tables S12 and S13). AV, SB, KK, and ENM analyzed and interpreted the results. Then, by seeding reliable subsequences, a newly designed path extension strategy accurately searches for a transcript-representing path cover over each splicing graph. CAS Each assembler was executed on the default settings. (, Accuracy comparisons of the assemblers on the four real data sets at the transcript level. -, Canzar S, Andreotti S, Weese D, Reinert K, Klau GW. Tiglon enables accurate transcriptome assembly via integrating mappings of different aligners. This pipeline also used a reference genome guided transcriptome assembly along with the Viridiplantae proteome to assign gene IDs to specific SuperTranscripts. An illustration of why the solution tends to be sparse is provided in Fig 3 in S2 File. Isoform multiplicity in HESC is lower than that of LC data, implying a simpler splicing structure of reference transcripts in HESC data. Adding to this complexity is the fact that distinct transcripts are expressed at different expression levels [9]. The transcriptome assembly [8] problem is to obtain a complete and accurate recovery of transcriptome based on observed RNA-seq reads. EvidentialGene overestimated the number of transcripts significantly (417%). The outlined region represents where the shared correct and incorrect contigs were counted for the ConSemble3+g assembly using the same reference genomes (shown as TP and FP in Additional file 2: Table S9). If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. This can be resolved if one of them includes a known path, as illustrated in Fig 6 as well as Fig 2C. As normalization works at the read level, kmer-length selection for this step has minimal impact on the unique kmers kept, and hence on the performance of the assembly. Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Bioinformatics 29: 25292538. The LC reference transcripts are based on GENCODE annotations augmented by utilizing a combination of short reads with long PacBio reads line (700K CCS reads) [32]. Through combining the results of multiple assemblers, ensemble assemblers such as EvidentialGene [16] and the method developed by Cerveau and Jackson [17] (we call their method Concatenation) attempt to address the limitations of individual assemblers, retaining contigs that are more likely to be correctly assembled and discarding the rest. The genome assembly used as the reference is the allotetraploid L. acc. These methods, however, cannot measure directly the accuracy of each contig sequence. This was observed in much lower numbers of incorrectly assembled contigs than those obtained by the other ensemble methods as well as all individual methods. PeerJ. 2013;29(13):i326-334. We therefore examined the impact of using lower identity thresholds on the assembly metrics. RSEM-EVAL and KC tend to provide higher scores for assemblies with longer sequences that account for, e.g., more of the kmers in the RNAseq data or the reference over the precision of the contig sequence. Using the simulated benchmarking datasets, we compared the performance of various transcriptome assembly approaches including both de novo and genome-guided methods. We have developed RefShannona new genome-guided transcriptome assembler as an extension of the original de novo Shannon project [24]. Different thresholds on sensitivity and false positive. Nature. (B) A splice event happens in the middle of Exon A, which implies Exon A should be further split into two sub exons at splice donor location. DETONATE provides a reference-free model-based RSEM-EVAL score as well as reference-based scores (F1 and KC). A survey of best practices for RNA-seq data analysis. Therefore, we focus only on sensitivity performance which means among the known reference transcripts, how many of them are correctly recovered. Both approaches greatly reduce the number of assembled contigs by removing redundant sequences. To illustrate this issue, using the same ConSemble de novo assembly, we generated two other collections of contig sets. Suppose ACD is a known path, then the first decomposition of ACE, BCE, BCD can be excluded. To enable such an isoform-level analysis, a transcriptome assembly algorithm is utilized to stitch together the observed short reads into the corresponding transcripts. Our performance evaluation metrics include ROC (including sensitivity and false positive) for simulated datasets and sensitivity for real datasets. TransComb: genome-guided transcriptome assembly via combing junctions in splicing graphs. Concatenation produced the fewest contigs, which was even fewer than those produced by Scallop, the best genome-guided assembler. As even a single nucleotide indel can have major impacts on the predicted protein sequences, it is important to evaluate performance statistics at both nucleotide and protein levels [32]. 1. Therefore, we have relaxed the original problem as: find argminfi,j fi,j ri,j such that i InEdges(v) fi,j = wj, j OutEdges(v) and j OutEdges(v) fi,j = wi, i InEdges(v) and fi,j 0, ri,j > 0. 40 Euro per isolate) and also much more accurate (typically below 0.1% error rate) [37, 38]. EvidentialGene, Concatenation, and TransBorrow also recovered more BUSCOs than the highest performing genome-guided method, StringTie2. Using the benchmark datasets, we compared the following four genome-guided transcriptome assemblers: Cufflinks [14], Bayesembler [26], Scallop [27], and StringTie2 [28, 29]. In the absence of a sequenced genome to guide the reconstruction process, the transcriptome must be assemble . These tools are able to capture splice events (e.g. The HESC reference transcripts are assembled by hybrid assembler IDP from the 135M short reads together with 7.8M long PacBio reads [31]. The assembly was performed using the same sets of four de novo assemblers and kmer lengths as described above resulting in 39 assemblies in total. Comput Biol Med. A high quality and comprehensive transcriptome is required in many bioinformatics workflows [1,2,3]. MITIE: simultaneous RNA-Seq-based transcript identification and quantification in multiple samples. It utilizes a careful splice graph generation procedure aimed at capturing as much information as possible from read alignments, and utilizes a sparse flow decomposition algorithm aims at reconstructing as small number of transcripts as possible under splice graph constraints. Some contigs were correctly assembled only by one of the assemblers, while the majority of such contigs were false positives (incorrectly assembled, shown in red letters). While ConSemble3+d did not find as many BUSCOs as StringTie2 did, it had the best RSEM-EVAL score among all assemblers. Trinity in genome-guided mode also utilizes the reference genome, but mainly to group together the reads within the same region. The 4-way intersection set included a large portion of correct contigs (4045%, shown in black letters) for all three datasets. It was the only de novo assembler that identified four or more isoforms (Additional file 3: Fig. To begin with, RefShannon takes a graph preparation step and graph traversal step as most existing methods do. Adv Sci (Weinh). PubMed Splice junctions represent the exon or sub-exon boundaries where alternative splicing could occur. To simplify the analysis, the performance of the isoform detection was evaluated solely by the number of correctly assembled isoforms without considering the abundance of each isoform. Each combination of read mapper and assembly algorithm handles these issues differently introducing inconsistent performance among assemblers. While EvidentialGene recovered more benchmark transcripts (Recall=0.66) than Trinity (Recall=0.64; Additional file 2: Table S3), the best of the individual de novo assemblers, many contigs were incorrectly assembled (Precision=0.16 compared to 0.51 for Trinity) leading to very low overall performance (F=0.26). The Col0-Alt transcriptome was generated based on the A. thaliana Col-0 genomic sequence and the version 3 atRTD transcriptome model. TM-1 [41; http://www.cottongen.org]. Genome-guided assembly using the 180 M dataset and the Ae. S3 File. the decomposition of graph into ACE with weight 15, BCD with weight 10 and FCD with weight 8 explain the splice graph well). By choosing the shortest nucleotide sequences, ConSemble assemblies tend to truncate the untranslated regions (UTRs) of the transcripts. In particular as Fig 1 illustrates, RNA-Seq reads sampled from transcriptome will be aligned onto a reference genome using external tools such as STAR [25], Tophat2 [26], Hisat2 [27], GMAP [28], minimap2 [29] and so on. While Bayesembler consistently produced the fewest unique contigs, those assembled contigs were most accurate as shown by the consistently highest values of Precision (>0.54). However, with less strict thresholds (<100%), their performance quickly recovered and became better than that of some of the de novo assemblers, although it remained lower than genome-guided assemblers using the same reference genome down to the lowest threshold (90%) used. Your privacy choices/Manage cookies we use in the preference centre. All contigs were compared at the protein level. Instead, the overlaps between different assemblies can be utilized to decrease false positives in transcriptome assembly. isoforms) due to alternative splicing, and the isoform multiplicity of a transcript refers to the number of isoforms of that transcripts gene. BMC Bioinform. They can be determined according to the read alignments, because a read sampled across two exon parts in a transcript can be split aligned onto disconnected genome regions, with the locus where the read leaves as the splice donor and the locus where the read enters as the splice acceptor. The assemblers which we have selected to compare RefShannon to include Cufflinks (v2.2.1), StringTie (v1.3.4d), Ryuto (v1.3m) and Trinity (v2.9.1) as they show relatively good performance in our initial analysis of various assemblers using smaller datasets (S3 File). Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States of America, Affiliation: (. ConSemble is implemented in Perl. To understand how much time/memory RefShannon requires for assembly tasks, we have monitored assembly procedures using the cgmemtime tool (https://github.com/gsauthof/cgmemtime), which was previously adopted to compare the computational complexities among read aligners [34]. The splice graph generation consists of three steps: split, merge and connect. non unique decomposition) happens: both ACE, BCE, BCD and ACE, ACD, BCE explain node Cs edge weight constraints. Chevreux B, Pfisterer T, Drescher B, Driesel AJ, Muller WEG, Wetter T, Suhai S. Using the miraEST assembler for reliable and automated mRNA transcript assembly and SNP detection in sequenced ESTs. The thoroughness of the assemblies generated from the real plant RNAseq libraries was assessed based on the number of complete genes identified from the Eudicotyledons obd10 dataset of BUSCO (version 3.1.0) [20]. BMC Genom. While benchmarking transcriptome assemblies is critical, this is also not trivial due to the general lack of true reference transcriptomes. Furthermore, the consensus strategy used with ConSemble allows the users to extract a set of contigs that are more likely to be correctly assembled (ConSemble4 assembly) from the rest of the contigs (ConSemble3 assembly). Each of the four pooled unique contig sets is used as the "contig library" from each method. Specific details for how each of these methods was run is described in Materials and Methods. All contigs were compared at the protein level. This not only provides sufficient extra information for flow decomposition later, but also helps reduce memory. Disclaimer. Nat Biotechnol. <300 bp), long reads (e.g. Ensemble assembly approaches can overcome some of the limitations of individual assemblers. Therefore, to minimize the impact of such differing behaviors between assemblers, we concentrated only on the longest ORFs produced by ORFfinder [49] to compare assembled contigs. For full functionality of this site, please enable JavaScript. A comparative evaluation of genome assembly reconciliation tools. Careers. By pooling multiple assemblies, especially also pooling those generated using multiple kmer lengths for de novo methods, ConSemble increases the completeness of the assembled transcriptome. Therefore, for genome-guided assemblies, only those produced using the same reference genome as the simulated RNAseq library (Tests 4, 6, and 8) were examined. An extensive evaluation of read trimming effects on Illumina NGS data analysis. Next-generation transcriptome assembly: strategies and performance analysis. Due to such tradeoffs, each transcript has an optimal kmer length that facilitates the accurate reconstruction of the full-length sequence. SPAdes: a new genome assembly algorithm and its applications to single-cell sequencing. De novo assembly was performed using Trinity 2.4.0 [6], SOAPdenovo-Trans 1.0.3 [22], IDBA-Tran 1.1.1 [23], and rnaSPAdes 3.10.0 (using the rnaspades.py script) [25]. The weight for the augmented edge here is proportional to the number of related read pair alignments. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America, Affiliation: Copyright: 2020 Mao et al. Cell. Detection of splice junctions from paired-end RNA-seq data by SpliceMap. The very low performance by TransBorrow was consistent to what we observed with the Col0-Alt benchmark dataset. ( A ) Comparisons, Accuracy comparisons of the assemblers on the four real data sets at the, Performance comparisons of the assemblers in identifying transcripts with different expression levels on, MeSH CAS A total of 24,765 unigenes were generated using a combination of genome-guided and de novo transcriptome assembly. Correspondence to Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: Sorry, a shareable link is not currently available for this article. In this study, we first provide a pipeline to generate a set of the simulatedbenchmark transcriptome and corresponding RNAseq data. Genome guided de novo transcriptome assembly. A modified Flux Simulator v1.2.1 pipeline [42] illustrated in the Additional file 1: Pipeline 1 was used to produce~250M 76bp read pairs for each dataset. We could use linear programming (e.g Python CVXOPT package (http://cvxopt.org/)) to solve the above problem. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of work included in this submission. To do genome-guided transcriptome assembly based on sampled RNA-Seq reads, RefShannon takes a graph preparation step and a graph traversal step, as other assembly methods [1621] usually do. To recover such low expression transcripts, more refined assembly strategies beyond the current simple consensus approach need to be considered. Only reference transcripts with full coverage of RNAseq data (all positions are required to be covered by at least one read) were included in the benchmark datasets, as transcripts without full coverage cannot be correctly assembled as a single contig. Only contigs that fully covered the benchmark protein sequences without any mismatches or gaps were considered correctly assembled (true positives, TPs). The best to enable such an isoform-level analysis, a transcriptome assembly 8... 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