MetaProb: Accurate Metagenomic Reads Binning based on Probabilistic Sequence Signatures
MetaProb is a tool for metagenomic binning developed with the support of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Reasearch Research within the Project of National Interest PRIN 20122F87B2 ``Compositional Approaches for the Analysis and Mining of Omics Data", PI Cinzia Pizzi
MetaProb is a novel assembly-assisted tool for unsupervised metagenomic binning.
The novelty of MetaProb derives from solving a
few important problems: how to divide reads into groups of independent reads, so that k-mer frequencies are not overestimated; how to convert k-mer counts into probabilistic sequence signatures, that will correct for variable distribution of k-mers, and for unbalanced groups of reads, in order to produce better estimates of the underlying genome statistic; how to estimate the number of species in a dataset.
MetaProb is more accurate and efficient than other state-of-the-art tools in binning both short reads datasets (F-measure 0.87) and long reads datasets (F-measure 0.97) for various abundance ratios. Also, the estimation of the number of species is more accurate than MetaCluster. On a real human stool dataset MetaProb identifies the most predominant species, in line with previous human gut studies.
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MetaProb was implemented by Samuele Girotto and it is freely available for academic use at
MetaProb bitbucket repository.
Contact address: Cinzia Pizzi.
Reference
If you use MetaProb, please cite:
S.Girotto, C.Pizzi, M.Comin:
MetaProb: accurate metagenomic reads binning based on probabilistic sequence signatures.
Bioinformatics (2016) 32 (17): i567-i575.
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