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Detecting DNA modifications from SMRT sequencing data by modeling sequence context dependence of polymerase kinetic.

ABSTRACT: DNA modifications such as methylation and DNA damage can play critical regulatory roles in biological systems. Single molecule, real time (SMRT) sequencing technology generates DNA sequences as well as DNA polymerase kinetic information that can be used for the direct detection of DNA modifications. We demonstrate that local sequence context has a strong impact on DNA polymerase kinetics in the neighborhood of the incorporation site during the DNA synthesis reaction, allowing for the possibility of estimating the expected kinetic rate of the enzyme at the incorporation site using kinetic rate information collected from existing SMRT sequencing data (historical data) covering the same local sequence contexts of interest. We develop an Empirical Bayesian hierarchical model for incorporating historical data. Our results show that the model could greatly increase DNA modification detection accuracy, and reduce requirement of control data coverage. For some DNA modifications that have a strong signal, a control sample is not even needed by using historical data as alternative to control. Thus, sequencing costs can be greatly reduced by using the model. We implemented the model in a R package named seqPatch, which is available at https://github.com/zhixingfeng/seqPatch.

SUBMITTER: Feng Z

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3597545 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Detecting DNA modifications from SMRT sequencing data by modeling sequence context dependence of polymerase kinetic.

Feng Zhixing Z Fang Gang G Korlach Jonas J Clark Tyson T Luong Khai K Zhang Xuegong X Wong Wing W Schadt Eric E

PLoS computational biology 20130314 3

DNA modifications such as methylation and DNA damage can play critical regulatory roles in biological systems. Single molecule, real time (SMRT) sequencing technology generates DNA sequences as well as DNA polymerase kinetic information that can be used for the direct detection of DNA modifications. We demonstrate that local sequence context has a strong impact on DNA polymerase kinetics in the neighborhood of the incorporation site during the DNA synthesis reaction, allowing for the possibility ...[more]

PMID: 23516341

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Detecting DNA modifications from SMRT sequencing data by modeling sequence context dependence of polymerase kinetic.

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Detecting DNA modifications from SMRT sequencing data by modeling sequence context dependence of polymerase kinetic.

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