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Metagenomic species profiling using universal phylogenetic marker genes
- Shinichi Sunagawa1,
- Daniel R Mende1,
- Georg Zeller1,
- Fernando Izquierdo-Carrasco2,
- Simon A Berger2,
- Jens Roat Kultima1,
- Luis Pedro Coelho1,
- Manimozhiyan Arumugam ORCID:orcid.org/0000-0002-0886-91011,3,4,
- Julien Tap1,5,
- Henrik Bjørn Nielsen6,7,
- Simon Rasmussen6,
- Søren Brunak6,7,
- Oluf Pedersen3,8,9,10,
- Francisco Guarner11,
- Willem M de Vos12,13,
- Jun Wang3,4,14,15,16,
- Junhua Li4,17,18,
- Joël Doré5,19,
- S Dusko Ehrlich5,
- Alexandros Stamatakis2,20 &
- …
- Peer Bork1,21
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Abstract
To quantify known and unknown microorganisms at species-level resolution using shotgun sequencing data, we developed a method that establishes metagenomic operational taxonomic units (mOTUs) based on single-copy phylogenetic marker genes. Applied to 252 human fecal samples, the method revealed that on average 43% of the species abundance and 58% of the richness cannot be captured by current reference genome–based methods. An implementation of the method is available athttp://www.bork.embl.de/software/mOTU/.
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Acknowledgements
We thank members of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory Information Technologies core facility and Y. Yuan for managing the high-performance computing resources and the members of the Bork group for fruitful discussions. This work was supported by funding from European Molecular Biology Laboratory, the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme via the MetaHIT (HEALTH-F4-2007-201052) and International Human Microbiome Standards, (HEALTH-F4-2010-261376) grants, The Novo Nordisk Foundation, The Lundbeck Foundation, institutional funding by the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft grants STA 860/2 and STA 860/3, the Metagenopolis ANR-11-DPBS-0001 grant, and the European Research Council Advanced Grants (MicrobesInside and CancerBiome grant agreement numbers 250172 and 268985 to W.M.d.V. and P.B., respectively).
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European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Shinichi Sunagawa, Daniel R Mende, Georg Zeller, Jens Roat Kultima, Luis Pedro Coelho, Manimozhiyan Arumugam, Julien Tap & Peer Bork
The Exelixis Lab, Scientific Computing Group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany
Fernando Izquierdo-Carrasco, Simon A Berger & Alexandros Stamatakis
The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Manimozhiyan Arumugam, Oluf Pedersen & Jun Wang
Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
Manimozhiyan Arumugam, Jun Wang & Junhua Li
Unité de Service 1367 Metagenopolis, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Jouy en Josas, France
Julien Tap, Joël Doré & S Dusko Ehrlich
Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
Henrik Bjørn Nielsen, Simon Rasmussen & Søren Brunak
Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
Henrik Bjørn Nielsen & Søren Brunak
Hagedorn Research Institute, Gentofte, Denmark
Oluf Pedersen
Institute of Biomedical Science, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Oluf Pedersen
Faculty of Health Sciences, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Oluf Pedersen
Digestive System Research Unit, University Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
Francisco Guarner
Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Willem M de Vos
Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Willem M de Vos
King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Jun Wang
Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Jun Wang
Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China
Jun Wang
BGI Hong Kong Research Institute, Hong Kong, China
Junhua Li
School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
Junhua Li
Unité Mixte de Recherche 1319 Micalis, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Jouy en Josas, France
Joël Doré
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Theoretical Informatics, Karlsruhe, Germany
Alexandros Stamatakis
Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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P.B. and S.S. conceived the study, S.S., D.R.M., G.Z., F.I.-C., S.A.B., M.A., J.T. and A.S. designed and performed the analyses, S.S., D.R.M., G.Z., J.R.K., L.P.C. and J.L. developed and implemented the program, O.P., F.G., J.D. and J.W. provided data, S.S., D.R.M., G.Z. and P.B. wrote the manuscript, and M.A., J.T., H.B.N., S.R., O.P., F.G., W.M.d.V., S.D.E. and A.S. gave conceptual advice and revised the manuscript.
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Supplementary Text and Figures
Supplementary Figures 1–8, and Supplementary Tables 4, 5 and 7 (PDF 2053 kb)
Supplementary Table 1
Prokaryotic reference genomes used in this study. (XLSX 159 kb)
Supplementary Table 2
Summary of benchmark results for speed and accuracy of marker gene identification. (XLSX 13 kb)
Supplementary Table 3
Metagenomic data sets used in this study. (XLSX 21 kb)
Supplementary Table 6
Summary of mOTU linkage groups with taxonomic annotations. (XLSX 67 kb)
Supplementary Software
mOTU profiling tool. (ZIP 86115 kb)
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