PATtyFams: Protein families for the microbial genomes in the PATRIC database

doi:10.3389/fmicb.2016.00118

Title: PATtyFams: Protein families for the microbial genomes in the PATRIC database

Abstract

The ability to build accurate protein families is a fundamental operation in bioinformatics that influences comparative analyses, genome annotation, and metabolic modeling. For several years we have been maintaining protein families for all microbial genomes in the PATRIC database (Pathosystems Resource Integration Center, patricbrc.org) in order to drive many of the comparative analysis tools that are available through the PATRIC website. However, due to the burgeoning number of genomes, traditional approaches for generating protein families are becoming prohibitive. In this report, we describe a new approach for generating protein families, which we call PATtyFams. This method uses the k-mer-based function assignments available through RAST (Rapid Annotation using Subsystem Technology) to rapidly guide family formation, and then differentiates the function-based groups into families using a Markov Cluster algorithm (MCL). In conclusion, this new approach for generating protein families is rapid, scalable and has properties that are consistent with alignment-based methods.

Authors:

Davis, James J. ^[1]; Gerdes, Svetlana ^[2]; Olsen, Gary J. ^[3]; Olson, Robert ^[1]; Pusch, Gordon D. ^[2]; Shukla, Maulik ^[1]; Vonstein, Veronika ^[2]; Wattam, Alice R. ^[4]; Yoo, Hyunseung ^[1]

Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Fellowship for Interpretation of Genomes, Burr Ridge, IL (United States)
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL (United States)
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg,VA (United States)

Publication Date:: 2016-02-08

Research Org.:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1248167

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357; NNA13AA91A

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Frontiers in Microbiology

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 1664-302X

Publisher:: Frontiers Research Foundation

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; genome annotation; comparative genomics; metabolic modeling; FIGfams; RAST

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                    Davis, James J., Gerdes, Svetlana, Olsen, Gary J., Olson, Robert, Pusch, Gordon D., Shukla, Maulik, Vonstein, Veronika, Wattam, Alice R., and Yoo, Hyunseung. PATtyFams: Protein families for the microbial genomes in the PATRIC database.  United States: N. p., 2016. 
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                    Davis, James J., Gerdes, Svetlana, Olsen, Gary J., Olson, Robert, Pusch, Gordon D., Shukla, Maulik, Vonstein, Veronika, Wattam, Alice R., & Yoo, Hyunseung. PATtyFams: Protein families for the microbial genomes in the PATRIC database.  United States.  doi:10.3389/fmicb.2016.00118.

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                    Davis, James J., Gerdes, Svetlana, Olsen, Gary J., Olson, Robert, Pusch, Gordon D., Shukla, Maulik, Vonstein, Veronika, Wattam, Alice R., and Yoo, Hyunseung. Mon .  
        "PATtyFams: Protein families for the microbial genomes in the PATRIC database".  United States.  doi:10.3389/fmicb.2016.00118.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1248167.

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@article{osti_1248167,

  title        = {PATtyFams: Protein families for the microbial genomes in the PATRIC database},

  author       = {Davis, James J. and Gerdes, Svetlana and Olsen, Gary J. and Olson, Robert and Pusch, Gordon D. and Shukla, Maulik and Vonstein, Veronika and Wattam, Alice R. and Yoo, Hyunseung},

  abstractNote = {The ability to build accurate protein families is a fundamental operation in bioinformatics that influences comparative analyses, genome annotation, and metabolic modeling. For several years we have been maintaining protein families for all microbial genomes in the PATRIC database (Pathosystems Resource Integration Center, patricbrc.org) in order to drive many of the comparative analysis tools that are available through the PATRIC website. However, due to the burgeoning number of genomes, traditional approaches for generating protein families are becoming prohibitive. In this report, we describe a new approach for generating protein families, which we call PATtyFams. This method uses the k-mer-based function assignments available through RAST (Rapid Annotation using Subsystem Technology) to rapidly guide family formation, and then differentiates the function-based groups into families using a Markov Cluster algorithm (MCL). In conclusion, this new approach for generating protein families is rapid, scalable and has properties that are consistent with alignment-based methods.},

  doi          = {10.3389/fmicb.2016.00118},

  journal      = {Frontiers in Microbiology},

  number       = ,

  volume       = 7,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2016},

  month        = {2}

}

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