Patent Application: US-201114130706-A

Abstract:
the present invention relates to a method for optimizing the assembled result of sequencing data using a genetic map . in particular , provided in the present invention is a new method for assembling individual sequenced segments , which comprises the step of constructing the genetic map with a genetic marker . furthermore , also provided in the present invention is a method for assembling the individual sequenced segments into a genome sequence , such as a chromosome sequence .

Description:
in order to make the purpose , technical solution and advantage of the present disclosure more apparent , a further description will be described in details to the present disclosure . it would be appreciated by those skilled in the art that specific examples described herein are explanatory for the present disclosure , but not be construed to limit the present disclosure . in the present example , 9311 rice was taken as an example , which exemplarily described the method of assembling reads according to the present disclosure . the genome of 9311 rice was sequenced using solexa sequencing platform ( illumine company ), to provide reads of 9311 rice . then , using methods well - known in the art , for example soap denovo assembly software ( http :// soap . genomics . org . cn / soapdenovo . html ), the reads of 9311 rice was connected into scaffolds , these sequence information of the scaffolds may refer to yu , hu et al . 2002 . the 9311 rice ( yu , j . et al . a draft sequence of the rice genome ( oryza sativa l . ssp . indica ). science 296 , 79 ( 2002 )) was subjected to hybridization with pa64 rice ( wei , g et al . a transcriptomic analysis of superhybrid rice lyp9 and its parents . proc natl acad sci usa 106 , 7695 - 701 ( 2009 )), to obtain f1 generation , and then the f1 generation self - bred for 16 generations , to obtain a progeny population of 9311 rice . 135 progeny individuals were selected randomly from the progeny population obtained from self - breeding for 16 generations , to subject to an individual sequencing having a sequencing depth of 2 × ( a data volume of twice genome ), to provide reads of the progeny individual . taking the scaffolds from the parent 9311 rice as a reference sequence , using soap software ( li , r . et al . soap2 : an improved ultrafast tool for short read alignment . bioinformatics 25 , 1966 - 7 ( 2009 )), the reads of the 135 progeny individuals were aligned back to the reference sequence . based on the aligned result obtained using soap software , soapsnp software ( see , for example , http :// soap . genomics . org . cn / soapsnp . html or li , r . et al . snp detection for massively parallel whole - genome resequencing . genome research . 19 , 1124 ( 2009 )) was used to search snp site , and determine a genotype of each snp site in progeny individual ( i . e . to determine whether a base of snp site in the progeny individual derived from the 9311 rice or the pa64 rice ). a statistical result of snp site from the 9311 rice was shown as table . 1 as can be seen from the statistical result in table . 1 , the snp site marker not only had a huge number , but also had a basically uniform distribution in the entire genome . and , these snp site markers basically covered the entire genome , so as to use in assembling the scaffolds into a genomic sequence ( for example a chromosomal sequence ) fig2 demonstrated a genotype information of partial snp sites in progeny individuals , in which a represented deriving from a male parent , b represented deriving from a female parent . based on these genotype information , a distribution of a base of each snp site in the progeny individuals were determined , to calculate a recombination rate between snp site markers . in order to clustering the scaffolds , three snp site markers were selected out from each scaffold , in which , two of them located at two ends of the scaffolds respectively ( one located at a front - end of the scaffold , and the other located at a back - end of the scaffold ), while the third snp site marker located in the middle of the scaffold . the genetic distances between every two of all selected snp site markers were calculated . the number of the pairwise snp site markers having the same genetic distance was subjected to statistics , with which a graph was plotted taken the genetic distance as x - coordinate and taken the number of pairwise snp site markers as y - coordinate ( see fig4 ). fig4 demonstrated a distribution of genetic markers between snp site markers in 9311 rice . a qqplot function ( wilk , m . b . & amp ; gnanadesikan , r . probability plotting methods for the analysis of data . biometrika 55 , 1 ( 1968 )) of r software was used to subject the distribution to a statistical test . the result showed that the distribution of the genetic distance between the snp site markers basically followed normal distribution ( r = 0 . 8863972 ). a 99 % confidence interval of the distribution was calculated , of which a lower limit was taken as a threshold value , so as to obtain a genetic distance having a threshold value of about 3 cm . thus , if a genetic distance between two snp site markers being less than 3 cm , then these two snp site markers were regarded as linked , and belonged to a same chromosome . accordingly , the scaffolds of which these two snp site markers located were also regarded as belonging to a same chromosome . according to the above - described threshold value of genetic distance , all scaffolds were clustered . the results showed that , after clustering , 12 linkage groups were obtained ( corresponding to the number of chromosome having a haploid in rice . furthermore , those scaffolds which cannot be clustered together to any linkage groups , were clustered by following steps : 1 ) calculating a quadratic sum of a genetic distance of snp site marker in each unclustered scaffold with snp site marker in various scaffolds of all linkage groups ; selecting an unclustered scaffold having a minimal quadratic sum and a corresponding scaffold which has been clustered into the linkage groups ; and clustering the unclustered scaffold to the linkage groups which the corresponding clustered scaffold belonged ; 2 ) repeating step 1 ), until a total genetic distance of all linkage groups reached a genetic map total distance of rice species . according to the above steps , there were total 444 scaffolds had been clustered , the total length of the scaffolds was 338 , 305 , 001 bp , which accounted for 88 . 2 % of the genome size . and it had been realized that most scaffolds were clustered together in accordance with the chromosome . after the clustering steps were completed , an mstmap soft ( wu , y , bhat , p . r ., close , t . j . & amp ; lonardi , s . efficient and accurate construction of genetic linkage maps from the minimum spanning tree of a graph . plos genet 4 , e1000212 ( 2008 )) was used to sort the clustered scaffolds , to determine the sequential relationship thereof in the linkage groups . then , a relative genetic distance between the snp site marker located at both ends of various scaffolds and the snp site marker located in the middle of the previous scaffold thereof , to determine a connected direction of various scaffolds . by the above - described assembly method , 12 linkage groups ( corresponding to 12 chromosomes of the 9311 rice ) were obtained , of which the detailed information had been shown in table . 2 . in addition , fig5 exemplarily demonstrated an arranging situation of scaffolds in one linkage group ( linkage group lg 09 of the 9311 rice , which was corresponding to chromosome 9 of the 9311 rice ). to be noted , because the length of the chromosomal sequence obtained by assembling was too long , fig4 only exemplarily demonstrated partial scaffolds of the linkage group lg 09 , but not showed all scaffolds . however , those skilled in the art may obtain the chromosomal sequence comprising all scaffolds according to the information in table . 2 . as can be seen from the above result , the method of the present example using a genetic map comprising snp site marker , broke through the choke point that the next - generation sequencing technique - based assembly software cannot connect reads into chromosomal sequence , and successfully realized connecting the reads of the 9311 rice genome into the chromosomal sequence , which provided a more powerful tool for the genomics . in addition , the above - describe method was also used to assemble the reads of individual derived from watermelon which is a species with a smaller genome ( 11 chromosomes ). the assembly result of such individual reads was shown in fig3 , in which the left side represented the genetic sequential relationship of the genetic markers , the right side represented the position relationship of the scaffolds in the chromosome . this assembly result further proved the reliable and effectiveness of the method of the present disclosure , i . e ., the method of the present disclosure may be used to effectively assemble the individual reads into the chromosomal sequence . although specific embodiments of the present disclosure have been described in details , the above embodiments cannot be construed to limit the present disclosure . and , it would be appreciated by those skilled in the art that various modification and changes can be made in the embodiments according to all teachings which has been already disclosed , which are all within the scope of the present disclosure . the full scope of the present disclosure is given by the claims and any equivalents thereof . in the present text , additional details of publications and other materials for illustrating the present disclosure or providing implement of the present disclosure are all incorporated herein by reference , and following references are provided for convenience . 1 . kosambi , d . 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