Ribotin: Automated assembly and phasing of rDNA morphs

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Motivation: The ribosomal DNA (rDNA) arrays are highly repetitive and homogenous regions which exist in all life. Due to their repetitiveness, current assembly methods do not fully assemble the rDNA arrays in humans and many other eukaryotes, and so variation within the rDNA arrays cannot be effectively studied. Results: Here, we present the tool ribotin to assemble full length rDNA copies, or morphs. Ribotin uses a combination of highly accurate long reads and extremely long nanopore reads to resolve the variation between rDNA morphs. We show that ribotin successfully recovers the most abundant morphs in human and nonhuman genomes. We also find that genome wide consensus sequences of the rDNA arrays frequently produce a mosaic sequence that does not exist in the genome.

Originalspråkengelska
Artikelnummerbtae124
TidskriftBioinformatics
Volym40
Nummer3
Antal sidor8
ISSN1367-4803
DOI
StatusPublicerad - 1 mars 2024
MoE-publikationstypA1 Tidskriftsartikel-refererad

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