2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Development of a k-mer-based GWAS method for metagenomic analysis
Project/Area Number |
21K19211
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Review Section |
Medium-sized Section 43:Biology at molecular to cellular levels, and related fields
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Research Institution | Tokyo Institute of Technology |
Principal Investigator |
Itoh Takehiko 東京工業大学, 生命理工学院, 教授 (90501106)
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Project Period (FY) |
2021-07-09 – 2023-03-31
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Keywords | メタゲノム / アセンブル |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In this study, we aimed to develop a method to efficiently extract environment-specific genomic regions from two groups of environmental samples by metagenomic sequencing and comparative analysis, respectively. Initially, we planned to achieve this region by extracting and assembling specific k-mer from short reads obtained from both environments. However, due to the difficulty of distinguishing k-mer from error-derived k-mer by frequency difference, we changed the plan and developed a method to extract the genomic regions specific to each environment from the “bubble structure” of the assembly graph after pan- metagenome assembly of the whole sequence data from both environments. By applying the method to real data, we succeeded in extracting regions of diversity within the same bacterial species depending on the environment, demonstrating the effectiveness of our method.
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Free Research Field |
ゲノム情報解析
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Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
近年、ある環境に生息する細菌群集からゲノムDNAを直接回収・解析するメタゲノム手法は注目されている研究分野の一つである。しかし、アセンブル・ビンニングにより各菌のゲノムを再構成させ、さらには表現型との因果関係まで繋げようとすると解析は極めて困難であると言わざるを得ない。このような問題に対して、二群間で異なる多様性を持つゲノム領域を効率的に抽出することを可能にする本成果の利用は、研究遂行を容易にする効果が期待される。残念ながらデータ量の不足などから、両群の表現型とのリンクまでを直接的に見出すことは、現時点で困難であるが、候補箇所の効率的な抽出による候補の絞り込みが可能となり、その意義は大きい。
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