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Evaluation of PacBio sequencing for full-length bacterial 16S rRNA gene classification

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Microbiology, November 2016
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Title
Evaluation of PacBio sequencing for full-length bacterial 16S rRNA gene classification
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BMC Microbiology, November 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12866-016-0891-4
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Josef Wagner, Paul Coupland, Hilary P. Browne, Trevor D. Lawley, Suzanna C. Francis, Julian Parkhill

Abstract

Currently, bacterial 16S rRNA gene analyses are based on sequencing of individual variable regions of the 16S rRNA gene (Kozich, et al Appl Environ Microbiol 79:5112-5120, 2013).This short read approach can introduce biases. Thus, full-length bacterial 16S rRNA gene sequencing is needed to reduced biases. A new alternative for full-length bacterial 16S rRNA gene sequencing is offered by PacBio single molecule, real-time (SMRT) technology. The aim of our study was to validate PacBio P6 sequencing chemistry using three approaches: 1) sequencing the full-length bacterial 16S rRNA gene from a single bacterial species Staphylococcus aureus to analyze error modes and to optimize the bioinformatics pipeline; 2) sequencing the full-length bacterial 16S rRNA gene from a pool of 50 different bacterial colonies from human stool samples to compare with full-length bacterial 16S rRNA capillary sequence; and 3) sequencing the full-length bacterial 16S rRNA genes from 11 vaginal microbiome samples and compare with in silico selected bacterial 16S rRNA V1V2 gene region and with bacterial 16S rRNA V1V2 gene regions sequenced using the Illumina MiSeq. Our optimized bioinformatics pipeline for PacBio sequence analysis was able to achieve an error rate of 0.007% on the Staphylococcus aureus full-length 16S rRNA gene. Capillary sequencing of the full-length bacterial 16S rRNA gene from the pool of 50 colonies from stool identified 40 bacterial species of which up to 80% could be identified by PacBio full-length bacterial 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Analysis of the human vaginal microbiome using the bacterial 16S rRNA V1V2 gene region on MiSeq generated 129 operational taxonomic units (OTUs) from which 70 species could be identified. For the PacBio, 36,000 sequences from over 58,000 raw reads could be assigned to a barcode, and the in silico selected bacterial 16S rRNA V1V2 gene region generated 154 OTUs grouped into 63 species, of which 62% were shared with the MiSeq dataset. The PacBio full-length bacterial 16S rRNA gene datasets generated 261 OTUs, which were grouped into 52 species, of which 54% were shared with the MiSeq dataset. Alpha diversity index reported a higher diversity in the MiSeq dataset. The PacBio sequencing error rate is now in the same range of the previously widely used Roche 454 sequencing platform and current MiSeq platform. Species-level microbiome analysis revealed some inconsistencies between the full-length bacterial 16S rRNA gene capillary sequencing and PacBio sequencing.

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Country Count As %
United States 4 1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
Unknown 304 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 53 17%
Researcher 53 17%
Student > Master 38 12%
Student > Bachelor 28 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 25 8%
Other 41 13%
Unknown 73 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 83 27%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 66 21%
Immunology and Microbiology 24 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 14 5%
Environmental Science 8 3%
Other 25 8%
Unknown 91 29%
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