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Journal Articles Nucleic Acids Research Year : 2015

Accurate multiplexing and filtering for high-throughput amplicon-sequencing

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Tagging amplicons with tag sequences appended to PCR primers allow the multiplexing of numerous samples for high-throughput sequencing (HTS). This approach is routinely used in HTS-based diversity analyses, especially in microbial ecology and biomedical diagnostics. However, amplicon library preparation is subject to pervasive sample sequence cross-contaminations as a result of tag switching events referred to as mistagging. Here, we sequenced seven amplicon libraries prepared using various multiplexing designs in order to measure the magnitude of this phenomenon and its impact on diversity analyses. Up to 28.2% of the unique sequences correspond to undetectable (critical) mistags in single-or saturated double-tagging libraries. We show the advantage of multiplexing samples following Latin Square Designs in order to optimize the detection of mistags and maximize the information on their distribution across samples. We use this information in designs incorporating PCR replicates to filter the critical mistags and to recover the exact composition of mock community samples. Being parameter-free and data-driven, our approach can provide more accurate and reproducible HTS data sets, improving the reliability of their interpretations .

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Genetics
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hal-01279130 , version 1 (25-02-2016)

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Philippe Esling, Franck Lejzerowicz, Jan Pawlowski. Accurate multiplexing and filtering for high-throughput amplicon-sequencing. Nucleic Acids Research, 2015, 43 (5), pp.2513-2524. ⟨10.1093/nar/gkv107⟩. ⟨hal-01279130⟩
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