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Alignment- and Reference-Free Phylogenomics with Colored de Bruijn Graphs

Author Roland Wittler

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  • Applied computing → Bioinformatics
  • Applied computing → Molecular sequence analysis
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  • Phylogenomics
  • phylogenetics
  • phylogenetic splits
  • colored de Bruijn graphs

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Abstract

We present a new whole-genome based approach to infer large-scale phylogenies that is alignment- and reference-free. In contrast to other methods, it does not rely on pairwise comparisons to determine distances to infer edges in a tree. Instead, a colored de Bruijn graph is constructed, and information on common subsequences is extracted to infer phylogenetic splits. Application to different datasets confirms robustness of the approach. A comparison to other state-of-the-art whole-genome based methods indicates comparable or higher accuracy and efficiency.

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Roland Wittler. Alignment- and Reference-Free Phylogenomics with Colored de Bruijn Graphs. In 19th International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 143, pp. 2:1-2:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.WABI.2019.2

Author Details

Roland Wittler
  • Genome Informatics, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, Germany
  • Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Germany

Acknowledgements

I thank Guillaume Holley for support on Bifrost, Nina Luhmann for pointers to data sets, and Andreas Rempel for programming assistance.

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