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An optimized procedure greatly improves EST vector contamination removal

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العنوان: An optimized procedure greatly improves EST vector contamination removal
المؤلفون: Chen, Yi-An, Lin, Chang-Chun, Wang, Chin-Di, Wu, Huan-Bin, Hwang, Pei-Ing
بيانات النشر: BioMed Central Ltd.
سنة النشر: 2007
المجموعة: BioMed Central
الوصف: Background The enormous amount of sequence data available in the public domain database has been a gold mine for researchers exploring various themes in life sciences, and hence the quality of such data is of serious concern to researchers. Removal of vector contamination is one of the most significant operations to obtain accurate sequence data containing only a cDNA insert from the basecalls output by an automatic DNA sequencer. Popular bioinformatics programs to accomplish vector trimming include LUCY, cross_match and SeqClean. Results In a recent study, where the program SeqClean was used to remove vector contamination from our test set of EST data compiled through various library construction systems, however, a significant number of errors remained after preliminary trimming. These errors were later almost completely corrected by simply using a re-linearized form of the cloning vector to compare against the target ESTs. The modified trimming procedure for SeqClean was also compared with the trimming efficiency of the other two popular programs, LUCY2, and cross_match. Using SeqClean with a re-linearized form of the cloning vector significantly surpassed the other two programs in all tested conditions, while the performance of the other two programs was not influenced by the modified procedure. Vector contamination in dbEST was also investigated in this study: 2203 out of the 48212 ESTs sampled from dbEST (2007-04-18 freeze) were found to match sequences in UNIVEC. Conclusion Vector contamination remains a serious concern to the data quality in the public sequence database nowadays. Based on the results presented here, we feel that our modified procedure with SeqClean should be recommended to all researchers for the task of vector removal from EST or genomic sequences.
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
اللغة: English
العلاقة: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/8/416Test
الإتاحة: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/8/416Test
حقوق: Copyright 2007 Chen et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.154D8E57
قاعدة البيانات: BASE