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Extension of MAFFT multiple sequence alignment program mainly for large data

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16K07464
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Evolutionary biology
Research InstitutionOsaka University

Principal Investigator

Katoh Kazutaka  大阪大学, 微生物病研究所, 准教授 (70378868)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 山田 和範  東北大学, 情報科学研究科, 准教授 (20756217)
富井 健太郎  国立研究開発法人産業技術総合研究所, 情報・人間工学領域, 研究チーム長 (40357570)
Project Period (FY) 2016-04-01 – 2021-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2020)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Keywords多重配列アラインメント / 計算プログラム / 配列解析 / タンパク質 / 塩基配列 / ウイルスゲノム / タンパク質立体構造 / 巨大アラインメント / ロングリードシーケンサー / FFT / SARS-CoV-2 / 立体構造 / 相同性検索
Outline of Final Research Achievements

The primary purpose is to enable the MAFF program to align large sequence data that is becoming common and necessary as a result of the progress of sequencing technologies. When starging this project, there was an argument about how to select a guide tree for the progressive alignment method for large data. We carefully considered this issue and concluded that a conventional approach works well although resource consuming. Based on this result, we made technical improvements to scale up an existing option of MAFFT. We also improved the accuracy of relatively small scale alignment of protein sequences by incorporating 3D structural information.

This project aims to provide many researchers with useful computer software to help solving real-world problems. As a massive need to analyze SARS-CoV-2 genomes suddenly arose, MAFFT is heavily used, indirectly contributing to solve real-world problems such as the origin of this virus and functional analysis of interaction between virus and host.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究の目的は配列解析に役立つ計算プログラムを多くの研究者に提供することであり、直接社会に役立つことは意図していないが、新型コロナウイルスの配列解析において大規模な多重配列アラインメントの計算のためにMAFFTプログラムがよく利用された。このように間接的に役立つことは想定通りであったが、利用頻度は想定を超えた。この計算の高速化の鍵となったアルゴリズムは20年近く前に Katoh et al (2002) で提案したものであり、当時の配列解析のためには過剰性能気味であった。このことは、開発当初は無駄に見える多くの方法の中に、後年役に立つものが少数存在するかもしれない可能性を示している。

Report

(6 results)
  • 2020 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (22 results)

All 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 Other

All Journal Article (12 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 3 results,  Peer Reviewed: 8 results,  Open Access: 8 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 1 results) Presentation (3 results) (of which Invited: 3 results) Book (1 results) Remarks (6 results)

  • [Journal Article] lamassemble: Multiple Alignment and Consensus Sequence of Long Reads2020

    • Author(s)
      Frith Martin C.、Mitsuhashi Satomi、Katoh Kazutaka
    • Journal Title

      Methods Mol Biol.

      Volume: 2231 Pages: 135-145

    • DOI

      10.1007/978-1-0716-1036-7_9

    • ISBN
      9781071610350, 9781071610367
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Analysis of Protein Intermolecular Interactions with MAFFT-DASH2020

    • Author(s)
      Rozewicki John、Li Songling、Katoh Kazutaka、Standley Daron M.
    • Journal Title

      Multiple Sequence Alignment (Methods in Molecular Biology)

      Volume: 2232 Pages: 163-177

    • DOI

      10.1007/978-1-0716-1036-7_11

    • ISBN
      9781071610350, 9781071610367
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Long-read DNA sequencing fully characterized chromothripsis in a patient with Langer?Giedion syndrome and Cornelia de Lange syndrome-42020

    • Author(s)
      Lei Ming、Liang Desheng、Yang Yifeng、Mitsuhashi Satomi、Katoh Kazutaka、Miyake Noriko、Frith Martin C.、Wu Lingqian、Matsumoto Naomichi
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Human Genetics

      Volume: - Issue: 8 Pages: 667-674

    • DOI

      10.1038/s10038-020-0754-6

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Repertoire Builder: high-throughput structural modeling of B and T cell receptors2019

    • Author(s)
      Schritt Dimitri、Li Songling、Rozewicki John、Katoh Kazutaka、Yamashita Kazuo、Volkmuth Wayne、Cavet Guy、Standley Daron M.
    • Journal Title

      Molecular Systems Design & Engineering

      Volume: 4 Issue: 4 Pages: 761-768

    • DOI

      10.1039/c9me00020h

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Long-read sequencing identifies GGC repeat expansions in NOTCH2NLC associated with neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease2019

    • Author(s)
      Sone Jun、Mitsuhashi Satomi et al.
    • Journal Title

      Nature Genetics

      Volume: 51 Issue: 8 Pages: 1215-1221

    • DOI

      10.1038/s41588-019-0459-y

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] MAFFT-DASH: integrated protein sequence and structural alignment2019

    • Author(s)
      Rozewicki John、Li Songling、Amada Karlou Mar、Standley Daron M、Katoh Kazutaka
    • Journal Title

      Nucleic Acids Research

      Volume: 47

    • DOI

      10.1093/nar/gkz342

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report 2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Structural Modeling of Lymphocyte Receptors and Their Antigens2019

    • Author(s)
      Li Songling、Wilamowski Jan、Teraguchi Shunsuke、van Eerden Floris J.、Rozewicki John、Davila Ana、Xu Zichang、Katoh Kazutaka、Standley Daron M.
    • Journal Title

      Methods in Molecular Biology

      Volume: 2048 Pages: 207-229

    • DOI

      10.1007/978-1-4939-9728-2_17

    • ISBN
      9781493997275, 9781493997282
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Parallelization of MAFFT for large-scale multiple sequence alignments2018

    • Author(s)
      Nakamura Tsukasa、Yamada Kazunori D、Tomii Kentaro、Katoh Kazutaka
    • Journal Title

      Bioinformatics

      Volume: 印刷中 Issue: 14 Pages: 2490-2492

    • DOI

      10.1093/bioinformatics/bty121

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] MAFFT online service: multiple sequence alignment, interactive sequence choice and visualization2017

    • Author(s)
      Katoh Kazutaka、Rozewicki John、Yamada Kazunori D.
    • Journal Title

      Briefings in Bioinformatics

      Volume: 印刷中 Issue: 4 Pages: 1160-1166

    • DOI

      10.1093/bib/bbx108

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Modeling Biocatalysts2017

    • Author(s)
      Schritt Dimitri、Katoh Kazutaka、Li Songling、Standley Daron M.
    • Journal Title

      Future Directions in Biocatalysis (Second Edition), edited by T. Matsuda

      Volume: - Pages: 385-398

    • DOI

      10.1016/b978-0-444-63743-7.00019-6

    • ISBN
      9780444637437
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Application of the MAFFT sequence alignment program to large data―reexamination of the usefulness of chained guide trees2016

    • Author(s)
      Yamada KD, Tomii K, Katoh K
    • Journal Title

      Bioinformatics

      Volume: 32 Issue: 21 Pages: 3246-3251

    • DOI

      10.1093/bioinformatics/btw412

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] A simple method to control over-alignment in the MAFFT multiple sequence alignment program2016

    • Author(s)
      Katoh K, Standley DM
    • Journal Title

      Bioinformatics

      Volume: 32 Issue: 13 Pages: 1933-1942

    • DOI

      10.1093/bioinformatics/btw108

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Presentation] 多重配列アラインメントプログラムMAFFTの 新機能について2019

    • Author(s)
      加藤和貴
    • Organizer
      日本進化学会第21回大会
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] 多重配列アラインメントの並列計算2018

    • Author(s)
      加藤和貴
    • Organizer
      配列解析シンポジウム ~36 years since Smith-Waterman-Gotoh~
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] アラインメント2017

    • Author(s)
      加藤和貴
    • Organizer
      木村資生記念進化学セミナー
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Book] Multiple Sequence Alignment (Methods in Molecular Biology)2021

    • Author(s)
      Kazutaka Katoh ed.
    • Total Pages
      321
    • Publisher
      Springer
    • ISBN
      9781071610350
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] 多重配列アラインメント計算サービス

    • URL

      https://mafft.cbrc.jp/alignment/server/

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report 2019 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] DASH database

    • URL

      https://sysimm.org/dash/

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report 2019 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] コロナウイルスの配列解析の紹介

    • URL

      http://www.biken.osaka-u.ac.jp/news_topics/detail/1077

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] https://mafft.cbrc.jp/alignment/server/

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] https://sysimm.org/dash/

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] MAFFT - a multiple sequence alignment program

    • URL

      http://mafft.cbrc.jp/alignment/server/

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report 2016 Research-status Report

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Published: 2016-04-21   Modified: 2022-01-27  

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