#GI2018 - Day Four

Variant Discovery and Genome Assembly

Melissa Wilson Sayres

Sex Differences in Reference Genome Affect Variant Calling and Differential Expression

X and Y homology dotplot

  • a few regions of alignment (PAR)

@sexchrlab

doi.org/10.1101/346940

  • https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/07/18/346940
  • preprint on correct tech biases on sex chr in NGS data
  • infer sex chromosome complement
  • pointing out regions on autosomes with sex chr - like alignment
    • which is screwing up read balance
    • which presumably could influence variant calling

chrY var calls will have many errors

  • 10,000 variants can be missed
  • mostly in PAR

Prithika Sritharan (Dicks)

Encoding yeast genomic diversity using variation graphs

Yeast

“one of earliest species to be domesticated”

NCYC

  • 4,000 strains of 530 species of yeast
  • 1,000 have been sequenced

Want to characterize these

Want to avoid conventional ref genome

  • doesn’t represesent all species well

Variation Graphs

  • using VG Toolkit (Garrison et al. 2017)
  • can align way more to VG than a traditional linear reference
    • looks WAY more, but y axis kind of deceiving (87-99% scale)

Zemin Ning (Durbin)

ScaffHiC Genome Scaffolding by Modelling Distributions of Hi-C Paired-end Reads

Contact matrix

  • C(i,j) num of paired reads between i and j contigs
  • curve fit contact distance with (rougly) quadratic model
  • also use orientation of reads

Quantify contig distance index

difficult to pick ‘favorite’ contig partner

showing stats of icefish genome assmembly which has better n50 etc stats than other tools

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