De novo Nanopore read quality improvement using deep learning

LaPierre, Nathan; Egan, Rob; Wang, Wei; Wang, Zhong

doi:10.1186/s12859-019-3103-z

De novo Nanopore read quality improvement using deep learning

Journal Article · Tue Nov 05 23:00:00 EST 2019 · BMC Bioinformatics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-019-3103-z· OSTI ID:1581387

LaPierre, Nathan ^[1]; Egan, Rob ^[2]; Wang, Wei ^[1]; ^[3]

Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
USDOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Walnut Creek, CA (United States)
USDOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Walnut Creek, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Merced, CA (United States)

BACKGROUND: Long read sequencing technologies such as Oxford Nanopore can greatly decrease the complexity of de novo genome assembly and large structural variation identification. Currently Nanopore reads have high error rates, and the errors often cluster into low-quality segments within the reads. The limited sensitivity of existing read-based error correction methods can cause large-scale mis-assemblies in the assembled genomes, motivating further innovation in this area. RESULTS: Here we developed a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based method, called MiniScrub, for identification and subsequent "scrubbing" (removal) of low-quality Nanopore read segments to minimize their interference in downstream assembly process. MiniScrub first generates read-to-read overlaps via MiniMap2, then encodes the overlaps into images, and finally builds CNN models to predict low-quality segments. Applying MiniScrub to real world control datasets under several different parameters, we show that it robustly improves read quality, and improves read error correction in the metagenome setting. Compared to raw reads, de novo genome assembly with scrubbed reads produces many fewer mis-assemblies and large indel errors. CONCLUSIONS: MiniScrub is able to robustly improve read quality of Oxford Nanopore reads, especially in the metagenome setting, making it useful for downstream applications such as de novo assembly. We propose MiniScrub as a tool for preprocessing Nanopore reads for downstream analyses. MiniScrub is open-source software and is available at https://bitbucket.org/berkeleylab/jgi-miniscrub .

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Foundation (NSF); National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1581387

Journal Information:: BMC Bioinformatics, Journal Name: BMC Bioinformatics Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 20; ISSN 1471-2105

Publisher:: BioMed CentralCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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