Abstract
Although plasmids are important for bacterial survival and adaptation, plasmid detection and assembly from genomic, let alone metagenomic, samples remain challenging. The recently developed plasmidSPAdes assembler addressed some of these challenges in the case of isolate genomes but stopped short of detecting plasmids in metagenomic assemblies, an untapped source of yet to be discovered plasmids. We present the metaplasmidSPAdes tool for plasmid assembly in metagenomic data sets that reduced the false positive rate of plasmid detection compared with the state-of-the-art approaches. We assembled plasmids in diverse data sets and have shown that thousands of plasmids remained below the radar in already completed genomic and metagenomic studies. Our analysis revealed the extreme variability of plasmids and has led to the discovery of many novel plasmids (including many plasmids carrying antibiotic-resistance genes) without significant similarities to currently known ones.
Funder
Russian Science Foundation
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Subject
Genetics(clinical),Genetics
Cited by
105 articles.
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