Primer and platform effects on 16S rRNA tag sequencing
Abstract
Sequencing of 16S rRNA gene tags is a popular method for profiling and comparing microbial communities. The protocols and methods used, however, vary considerably with regard to amplification primers, sequencing primers, sequencing technologies; as well as quality filtering and clustering. How results are affected by these choices, and whether data produced with different protocols can be meaningfully compared, is often unknown. Here we compare results obtained using three different amplification primer sets (targeting V4, V6–V8, and V7–V8) and two sequencing technologies (454 pyrosequencing and Illumina MiSeq) using DNA from a mock community containing a known number of species as well as complex environmental samples whose PCR-independent profiles were estimated using shotgun sequencing. We find that paired-end MiSeq reads produce higher quality data and enabled the use of more aggressive quality control parameters over 454, resulting in a higher retention rate of high quality reads for downstream data analysis. While primer choice considerably influences quantitative abundance estimations, sequencing platform has relatively minor effects when matched primers are used. In conclusion, beta diversity metrics are surprisingly robust to both primer and sequencing platform biases.
- Authors:
- Dept. of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA (United States); National Research Council Canada, Montreal, QC (Canada)
- Dept. of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA (United States)
- Illumina, Inc.,San Francisco, CA (United States)
- Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (United States). Carolina Center for Genome Sciences
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER) (SC-23)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1512103
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1256969
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; KP/CH57/1; IOS-0958245
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Frontiers in Microbiology
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 1664-302X
- Publisher:
- Frontiers Research Foundation
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; 16S rRNA gene sequencing; microbial population and community ecology; high throughput sequencing; microbial diversity; community assembly; amplification; sequencing error
Citation Formats
Tremblay, Julien, Singh, Kanwar, Fern, Alison, Kirton, Edward S., He, Shaomei, Woyke, Tanja, Lee, Janey, Chen, Feng, Dangl, Jeffery L., and Tringe, Susannah G. Primer and platform effects on 16S rRNA tag sequencing. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2015.00771.
Tremblay, Julien, Singh, Kanwar, Fern, Alison, Kirton, Edward S., He, Shaomei, Woyke, Tanja, Lee, Janey, Chen, Feng, Dangl, Jeffery L., & Tringe, Susannah G. Primer and platform effects on 16S rRNA tag sequencing. United States. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2015.00771.
Tremblay, Julien, Singh, Kanwar, Fern, Alison, Kirton, Edward S., He, Shaomei, Woyke, Tanja, Lee, Janey, Chen, Feng, Dangl, Jeffery L., and Tringe, Susannah G. Tue .
"Primer and platform effects on 16S rRNA tag sequencing". United States. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2015.00771. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1512103.
@article{osti_1512103,
title = {Primer and platform effects on 16S rRNA tag sequencing},
author = {Tremblay, Julien and Singh, Kanwar and Fern, Alison and Kirton, Edward S. and He, Shaomei and Woyke, Tanja and Lee, Janey and Chen, Feng and Dangl, Jeffery L. and Tringe, Susannah G.},
abstractNote = {Sequencing of 16S rRNA gene tags is a popular method for profiling and comparing microbial communities. The protocols and methods used, however, vary considerably with regard to amplification primers, sequencing primers, sequencing technologies; as well as quality filtering and clustering. How results are affected by these choices, and whether data produced with different protocols can be meaningfully compared, is often unknown. Here we compare results obtained using three different amplification primer sets (targeting V4, V6–V8, and V7–V8) and two sequencing technologies (454 pyrosequencing and Illumina MiSeq) using DNA from a mock community containing a known number of species as well as complex environmental samples whose PCR-independent profiles were estimated using shotgun sequencing. We find that paired-end MiSeq reads produce higher quality data and enabled the use of more aggressive quality control parameters over 454, resulting in a higher retention rate of high quality reads for downstream data analysis. While primer choice considerably influences quantitative abundance estimations, sequencing platform has relatively minor effects when matched primers are used. In conclusion, beta diversity metrics are surprisingly robust to both primer and sequencing platform biases.},
doi = {10.3389/fmicb.2015.00771},
journal = {Frontiers in Microbiology},
number = ,
volume = 6,
place = {United States},
year = {2015},
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