Functional Genomics with Next-Generation
Sequencing
Jen Taylor
Bioinformatics Team
CSIRO Plant Industry
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Capacity and Resolution
•Next generation sequencing
•Increasing capacity leads to increased resolution
Eric Lander, Broad Institute
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How a Genome Works?
Parts Description
•Function?
•Interconnectedness?
Comparisons
•Population -level
•Between genomes
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Application domains
Reference genome
No Reference Genome
Partially sequenced
UNsequenced
“PUNGenomes”
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Impact of a Reference Genome
Sequence Data
Alignment
Read Density
Characterisation
Genome
Assembly
Contigs
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Applications of Next Generation Sequencing
•Profiling of Variation
•Genetic variation
•Transcript variation
•Epigenetic variation
•Metagenomic variation
•Discovery
•Novel genomes
•Novel genes
•Novel transcripts
•Small / long non-coding RNA
RNA Sequencing (RNASeq)
•Coding and non-coding transcript profiling
•Dynamic and Context dependent
Epigenomics
•Genome-wide protein-DNA interactions, DNA modifications
•Heritable and reversible regulation of gene expression
Today
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RNASeq
•Qualitative –transcript diversity
•Quantitative –transcript abundance
•Impact of NGS
•Observation of transcript complexity
•Transcript discovery
•Small / long non-coding RNA
•Analytical challenges
•Transcript complexity
•Compositional properties
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RNASeq
Library
Construction
Sample
Total RNA
PolyA RNA
Small RNA
Sequencing
Base calling & QC
Mapping to
Genome
Assembly to
Contigs
Digital “Counts”
Reads per kilobase per million
(RPKM)
Transcript structure
Secondary structure
Targets or Products
Reference
PUN
Analysis
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RNASeq –Compositional properties
Depth of Sequence
•Sequence count ≈ Transcript Abundance
•Majority of the data can be dominated by a
small number of highly abundant transcripts
•Ability to observe transcripts of smaller
abundance is dependent upon sequence
depth
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RNASeq –Compositional properties
Composition
•Sequence counts are a composition
of a fixed number of total sequence
reads
•Therefore they are sum-constrained
and not independent
•Large variations in component
numbers and sizes can produce
artefacts
True Reads
RPKM
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RNASeq -Correspondence
•Good correspondence with :
•Expression Arrays
•Tiling Arrays
•qRT-PCR
•Range of up to 5 orders of magnitude
•Better detection of low abundance
transcripts
•Greater power to detect
•Transcript sequence polymorphism
•Novel trans-splicing
•Paralogous genes
•Individual cell type expression
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Reference Genome -RNASeq
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Reference Genome -RNASeq
Human Exome
Number of exons targeted: ~180,000 (CCDS database)
plus700+ miRNA(Sanger v13)
300+ ncRNA
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Limited publications from BS-Seq
•Mammals
•Methylation predominant occurs at CpG site
•Several publications in human
•One publications in mouse
•Plants
•Methylation occurs at CG, CHH, CHG sites
•Two publications in arabidopsis
H = A, G, T
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Problems of mapping BS-seq reads
•Reduced sequence complexity
C
m
methylated
CUn-methylated
Watson >>A C
m
G T T C T C C A G T C>>
Bisulfite
conversion
>>A C
m
G T T T T T T A G T T>>
>>A CG T T T T T T A G T T >>
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Problems of mapping BS-seq reads
•Increased search space
Watson >> A C
m
G T T C T C C A G T C>>
Crick << T G C
m
A A G A G G T CA G<<
BSW>> AC
m
GTTTTTTAGTT>> BSC <<TGC
m
AAGAGGTTAG<<
Bisulfite
conversion
BSW>>AC
m
GTTTTTTAGTT>>
BSWR << TG CAAAAAATCAA>>
BSCR >>ACG TTCTCCAAGA >>
BSC <<TGC
m
AAGAGGTTAG <<
PCR
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ELAND
•Mapping reads to genome sequences
•Mapping reads to two converted genome
sequences
•Cross match for reads mapping to multiple
positions in converted genomes
•Mapping results were combined to generate methylation
information
•Eland only allows 2 mismatches.
Lister et al. Cell(2008)
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BSMAP
•Based on HASH table seeding algorithm
Xi and Li BMC Bioinformatics(2009)
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Re-mapping of Lister’s data using BSMAP
Raw Reads Methods
Uniquely
Mapped Reads
Unique and
Nonclonal
Reads
Unique and
nonclonal
reads%
144,704,372
Eland 55,805,931 39,113,599 27.03%
BSMAP 67,975,425 48,498,687 35.52%
Lister et al. Cell(2008)
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Methylation pattern throughout chromosomes
CHG
Crick
Watson
Position
Arabidopsis Chromosome 3
CG
Watson
Crick
CHH Watson
Crick
Methylation Level / 50Kb
1.0
0.80
0.20
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Partially / Unsequenced Genomes
Options for dealing with partial or unsequenced genomes
•Wait for or generate the genome sequence
•‘Borrow’ a reference genome from a phylogenetic neighbour
•Take a deep breath and ‘do denovo’
•Denovo Genome
•Denovo Transcriptome
DNA or RNA Sequence
Data
Partial Sequence
Database
Partial
Assembly
Gene Annotation
Genetic Variation
Non-coding RNA
Transcript Variation
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Plant Genomes –Haploid Size
Human
Arabidopsis
Rice
Potato
Sugarcane
Cotton
Barley
Wheat
Diameter proportional to genome haploid genome size
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Plant Genomes –Total Size
Human Cotton Barley Sugarcane
Wheat
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Denovo RNA Seq
•Why transcriptome ?
•Large genome sizes with high repeat content are difficult to
assemble
•Transcriptomes more constant size
•Enriched for functional content
•Aims :
•Transcript discovery
•Small /long non-coding RNA profiling
•Analytical challenges
•Assembly –ABySS, Velvet, Euler-SR
•Comparisons between non-discrete, overlapping transcripts
•Annotation
•Ploidy
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Summary –Impacts and Challenges
•RNASeq
•Increased resolution
•Increased power for transcript complexity and variation
•Analytical challenges –transcript complexity, compositional bias
•Large gains in small and long non-coding RNA profiling
•Epigenomics
•ChipSeq and MethylSeq
•Genome-wide with resolution
•Robust event calling is challenging
•Denovo transcriptomics
•Attractive option for large, repeat rich genomes
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Acknowledgements
CSIRO PI Bioinformatics Team
Andrew Spriggs
Stuart Stephen
Emily Ying
Jose Robles
Michael James
CSIRO Biostatistics
David Lovell