A Pipeline for Constructing Reference Genomes for Large Cohort-Specific Metagenome Compression

Author:

Wang Linqi1ORCID,Ding Renpeng2,He Shixu2,Wang Qinyu1ORCID,Zhou Yan12

Affiliation:

1. State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China

2. MGI Tech, Shenzhen 518083, China

Abstract

Metagenomic data compression is very important as metagenomic projects are facing the challenges of larger data volumes per sample and more samples nowadays. Reference-based compression is a promising method to obtain a high compression ratio. However, existing microbial reference genome databases are not suitable to be directly used as references for compression due to their large size and redundancy, and different metagenomic cohorts often have various microbial compositions. We present a novel pipeline that generated simplified and tailored reference genomes for large metagenomic cohorts, enabling the reference-based compression of metagenomic data. We constructed customized reference genomes, ranging from 2.4 to 3.9 GB, for 29 real metagenomic datasets and evaluated their compression performance. Reference-based compression achieved an impressive compression ratio of over 20 for human whole-genome data and up to 33.8 for all samples, demonstrating a remarkable 4.5 times improvement than the standard Gzip compression. Our method provides new insights into reference-based metagenomic data compression and has a broad application potential for faster and cheaper data transfer, storage, and analysis.

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Virology,Microbiology (medical),Microbiology

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