Published January 1, 2020
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BacPipe: A Rapid, User-Friendly Whole-Genome Sequencing Pipeline for Clinical Diagnostic Bacteriology
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- 1. Univ Antwerp, Lab Med Microbiol, Campus Drie Eiken,S6,Univ Pl 1, B-2610 Antwerp, Belgium
- 2. European Bioinformat Inst, European Mol Biol Lab, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge CB10 1SD, England
Description
Despite rapid advances in whole genome sequencing (WGS) technologies, their integration into routine microbiological diagnostics has been hampered by the lack of standardized downstream bioinformatics analysis. We developed a comprehensive and computationally low-resource bioinformatics pipeline (BacPipe) enabling direct analyses of bacterial whole-genome sequences (raw reads or contigs) obtained from second- or third-generation sequencing technologies. A graphical user interface was developed to visualize real-time progression of the analysis. The scalability and speed of BacPipe in handling large datasets was demonstrated using 4,139 Illumina paired-end sequence files of publicly available bacterial genomes (2-9-5.4 Mb) from the European Nucleotide Archive. BacPipe is integrated in EBI-SELECTA, a project-specific portal (H2020-COMPARE), and is available as an independent docker image that can be used across Windows- and Unix-based systems. BacPipe offers a fully automated "one-stop" bacterial WGS analysis pipeline to overcome the major hurdle of WGS data analysis in hospitals and public-health and for infection control monitoring.
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