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Iowa State Bioinformatics BCB Symposium 2018 - There and Back Again
1. THERE AND BACK AGAIN
4th Annual BCB Symposium, March 30, 2018
Adina Howe
Assistant Professors
Department of Agricultural and
Biosystems Engineering
Iowa State University
www.germslab.org
NGS SEQUENCING
4. Gene / Genome Sequencing
¨ Collect samples
¨ Extract DNA
¨ Sequence DNA
¨ “Analyze” DNA to identify its content and origin
Taxonomy
(e.g., pathogenic E. Coli)
Function
(e.g., degrades cellulose)
5. Cost of Sequencing
Stein, Genome Biology, 2010
E. Coli genome 4,500,000 bp ($4.5M, 1992)
1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2003 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012
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6. Rapidly decreasing costs with
NGS Sequencing
Stein, Genome Biology, 2010
Next Generation Sequencing
4,500,000 bp (E. Coli, $100, presently)
1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2003 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012
Year
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10
100
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7. Effects of low cost sequencing…
First free-living bacterium sequenced for
billions of dollars and years of analysis
Personal genome can be
mapped in a few days and
hundreds of dollars
18. de novo assembly
vCompresses dataset size significantly
vImproved data quality (longer sequences, gene order)
vReference not necessary (novelty)
Raw sequencing data (“reads”) Computational algorithms Informative genes / genomes
20. Shotgun sequencing and de novo
assembly
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21. Practical Challenges – Intensive
computing
Howe et al, 2014, PNAS
Months of
“computer
crunching” on a
super computer
22. Practical Challenges – Intensive
computing
Howe et al, 2014, PNAS
Months of
“computer
crunching” on a
super computer
Assembly of 300 Gbp (70,000
genomes worth) can be done with
any assembly program in less than
14 GB RAM and less than 24 hours.
50 Gbp = 10,000 genomes
23. Four main challenges for de novo
sequencing of metagenomes.
¨ Repeats.
¨ Low coverage.
¨ Errors - these introduce breaks in the construction of
contigs.
¨ Variation in coverage – transcriptomes and
metagenomes (PCR amplification biases)
Challenge: assembler must distinguish between
erroneous connections and real connections.
25. Natural community characteristics
u Diverse
è Many organisms
(genomes)
u Variable abundance
è Most abundant organisms, sampled
more often
è Assembly requires a minimum amount
of sampling
è More sequencing, more errors
Sample 1x
26. Natural community characteristics
u Diverse
è Many organisms
(genomes)
u Variable abundance
è Most abundant organisms, sampled
more often
è Assembly requires a minimum amount
of sampling
è More sequencing, more errors
Sample 1x Sample 10x
27. Natural community characteristics
u Diverse
è Many organisms
(genomes)
u Variable abundance
è Most abundant organisms, sampled
more often
è Assembly requires a minimum amount
of sampling
è More sequencing, more errors
Sample 1x Sample 10x
Overkill
28. Digital normalization
True sequence (unknown)
Reads
(randomly sequenced)
Brown et al., 2012, arXiv
Howe et al., 2014, PNAS
Zhang et al., 2014, PLOS One
Titus Brown , Jason Pell, Qingpeng Zhang
29. Digital normalization
True sequence (unknown)
Reads
(randomly sequenced)
X
Brown et al., 2012, arXiv
Howe et al., 2014, PNAS
Zhang et al., 2014, PLOS One
Titus Brown , Jason Pell, Qingpeng Zhang
30. Digital normalization
True sequence (unknown)
Reads
(randomly sequenced)
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Brown et al., 2012, arXiv
Howe et al., 2014, PNAS
Zhang et al., 2014, PLOS One
X = Sequencing errors L
Titus Brown , Jason Pell, Qingpeng Zhang
31. Digital normalization
True sequence (unknown)
Reads
(randomly sequenced)
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Brown et al., 2012, arXiv
Howe et al., 2014, PNAS
Zhang et al., 2014, PLOS One
Titus Brown , Jason Pell, Qingpeng Zhang
32. Digital normalization
True sequence (unknown)
Reads
(randomly sequenced)
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
If next read is from a high
coverage region - discard
X
X
Brown et al., 2012, arXiv
Howe et al., 2014, PNAS
Zhang et al., 2014, PLOS One
Titus Brown , Jason Pell, Qingpeng Zhang
33. Digital normalization
True sequence (unknown)
Reads
(randomly sequenced)
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Redundant reads
(not needed for assembly)
Brown et al., 2012, arXiv
Howe et al., 2014, PNAS
Pell et al, 2012, PNAS
Zhang et al., 2014, PLOS One
v Scales datasets for assembly up to 95% - same assembly
outputs.
v Genomes, mRNA-seq, metagenomes (soils, gut, water)
34. Tackling Soil Biodiversity
Source: Chuck Haney
C. Titus Brown, James Tiedje, Qingpeng Zhang, Jason Pell (MSU)
Janet Jansson, Susannah Tringe (JGI)
37. The Future
¨ More data, more samples, better references
¨ Expense will be in sampling – not sequencing or
even data analysis
¨ All biologists will need to know how to use a pipette
and write computer programs
¨ Large-scale, collaborative projects rather than
single PI efforts
38. Soils @ ISU
¨ CABBI DOE Bioenergy Research Center / ISU: Can
we predict where to grow the best bioenergy
crops? How come some bioenergy crops are so
good at finding nitrogen and some not?
¨ USDA ARS / ISU : What happens during
composting? Does the compost source matter?
What is the timing of nutrients? Can we manage it?
¨ USDA ARS / ISU : Soil as an environmental
pathway: What happens in the soil in traditionally
managed agriculture? Manure-amended soils?
39. PART II.
Two blog posts on this:
adina.github.io
“Job Hunt Wrap Up”
“My job application to ISU”
59. Manage your own expectations.
¨ Know myself.
¨ Let myself win & lose.
¨ Get jazzed during the interview.
¨ Find nice, hardy laughing people.
¨ Find really smart people that would help mentor
me..
¨ Work hard but find balance.
¨ Dream it.