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Article: MEGAHIT v1.0: A fast and scalable metagenome assembler driven by advanced methodologies and community practices

TitleMEGAHIT v1.0: A fast and scalable metagenome assembler driven by advanced methodologies and community practices
Authors
KeywordsMetagenome assembly
Parallel computing
Succinct data structure
Issue Date2016
PublisherAcademic Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ymeth
Citation
Methods, 2016, v. 102, p. 3-11 How to Cite?
AbstractThe study of metagenomics has been much benefited from low-cost and high-throughput sequencing technologies, yet the tremendous amount of data generated make analysis like de novo assembly to consume too much computational resources. In late 2014 we released MEGAHIT v0.1 (together with a brief note of Li et al. (2015) [1]), which is the first NGS metagenome assembler that can assemble genome sequences from metagenomic datasets of hundreds of Giga base-pairs (bp) in a time- and memory-efficient manner on a single server. The core of MEGAHIT is an efficient parallel algorithm for constructing succinct de Bruijn Graphs (SdBG), implemented on a graphical processing unit (GPU). The software has been well received by the assembly community, and there is interest in how to adapt the algorithms to integrate popular assembly practices so as to improve the assembly quality, as well as how to speed up the software using better CPU-based algorithms (instead of GPU).In this paper we first describe the details of the core algorithms in MEGAHIT v0.1, and then we show the new modules to upgrade MEGAHIT to version v1.0, which gives better assembly quality, runs faster and uses less memory. For the Iowa Prairie Soil dataset (252 Gbp after quality trimming), the assembly quality of MEGAHIT v1.0, when compared with v0.1, has a significant improvement, namely, 36% increase in assembly size and 23% in N50. More interestingly, MEGAHIT v1.0 is no slower than before (even running with the extra modules). This is primarily due to a new CPU-based algorithm for SdBG construction that is faster and requires less memory. Using CPU only, MEGAHIT v1.0 can assemble the Iowa Prairie Soil sample in about 43 h, reducing the running time of v0.1 by at least 25% and memory usage by up to 50%. MEGAHIT v1.0, exhibiting a smaller memory footprint, can process even larger datasets. The Kansas Prairie Soil sample (484 Gbp), the largest publicly availa ble dataset, can now be assembled using no more than 500 GB of memory in 7.5 days. The assemblies of these datasets (and other large metgenomic datasets), as well as the software, are available at the website https://hku-bal.github.io/megabox.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/230205
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2021 Impact Factor: 4.647
2020 SCImago Journal Rankings: 2.080
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dc.contributor.authorLI, D-
dc.contributor.authorLuo, R-
dc.contributor.authorLiu, CM-
dc.contributor.authorLeung, HCM-
dc.contributor.authorTing, HF-
dc.contributor.authorSadakane, KUNIHIKO-
dc.contributor.authorYamashita, HIROSHI-
dc.contributor.authorLam, TW-
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-23T14:15:43Z-
dc.date.available2016-08-23T14:15:43Z-
dc.date.issued2016-
dc.identifier.citationMethods, 2016, v. 102, p. 3-11-
dc.identifier.issn1046-2023-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/230205-
dc.description.abstractThe study of metagenomics has been much benefited from low-cost and high-throughput sequencing technologies, yet the tremendous amount of data generated make analysis like de novo assembly to consume too much computational resources. In late 2014 we released MEGAHIT v0.1 (together with a brief note of Li et al. (2015) [1]), which is the first NGS metagenome assembler that can assemble genome sequences from metagenomic datasets of hundreds of Giga base-pairs (bp) in a time- and memory-efficient manner on a single server. The core of MEGAHIT is an efficient parallel algorithm for constructing succinct de Bruijn Graphs (SdBG), implemented on a graphical processing unit (GPU). The software has been well received by the assembly community, and there is interest in how to adapt the algorithms to integrate popular assembly practices so as to improve the assembly quality, as well as how to speed up the software using better CPU-based algorithms (instead of GPU).In this paper we first describe the details of the core algorithms in MEGAHIT v0.1, and then we show the new modules to upgrade MEGAHIT to version v1.0, which gives better assembly quality, runs faster and uses less memory. For the Iowa Prairie Soil dataset (252 Gbp after quality trimming), the assembly quality of MEGAHIT v1.0, when compared with v0.1, has a significant improvement, namely, 36% increase in assembly size and 23% in N50. More interestingly, MEGAHIT v1.0 is no slower than before (even running with the extra modules). This is primarily due to a new CPU-based algorithm for SdBG construction that is faster and requires less memory. Using CPU only, MEGAHIT v1.0 can assemble the Iowa Prairie Soil sample in about 43 h, reducing the running time of v0.1 by at least 25% and memory usage by up to 50%. MEGAHIT v1.0, exhibiting a smaller memory footprint, can process even larger datasets. The Kansas Prairie Soil sample (484 Gbp), the largest publicly availa ble dataset, can now be assembled using no more than 500 GB of memory in 7.5 days. The assemblies of these datasets (and other large metgenomic datasets), as well as the software, are available at the website https://hku-bal.github.io/megabox.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherAcademic Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ymeth-
dc.relation.ispartofMethods-
dc.rightsPosting accepted manuscript (postprint): © <year>. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/-
dc.subjectMetagenome assembly-
dc.subjectParallel computing-
dc.subjectSuccinct data structure-
dc.titleMEGAHIT v1.0: A fast and scalable metagenome assembler driven by advanced methodologies and community practices-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailLuo, R: rbluo@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.emailLeung, HCM: cmleung2@cs.hku.hk-
dc.identifier.emailTing, HF: hfting@cs.hku.hk-
dc.identifier.emailLam, TW: twlam@cs.hku.hk-
dc.identifier.authorityLeung, HCM=rp00144-
dc.identifier.authorityTing, HF=rp00177-
dc.identifier.authorityLam, TW=rp00135-
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.ymeth.2016.02.020-
dc.identifier.pmid27012178-
dc.identifier.scopuseid_2-s2.0-84962227778-
dc.identifier.hkuros260189-
dc.identifier.hkuros310903-
dc.identifier.volume102-
dc.identifier.spage3-
dc.identifier.epage11-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000377316200002-
dc.publisher.placeUnited States-
dc.identifier.issnl1046-2023-

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