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Inferring Viral Quasispecies Spectra from NGS Reads

Inferring Viral Quasispecies Spectra from NGS Reads. Ion M ă ndoiu Computer Science & Engineering Department University of Connecticut. Outline. Background Quasispecies spectrum reconstruction from shotgun NGS reads Quasispecies spectrum reconstruction from amplicon NGS reads

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Inferring Viral Quasispecies Spectra from NGS Reads

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  1. Inferring Viral Quasispecies Spectra from NGS Reads Ion Măndoiu Computer Science & Engineering Department University of Connecticut

  2. Outline • Background • Quasispecies spectrum reconstruction from shotgun NGS reads • Quasispecies spectrum reconstruction from ampliconNGS reads • Quasispecies spectrum reconstruction for IBV • Ongoing and future work

  3. Cost of DNA Sequencing http://www.economist.com/node/16349358

  4. Cost/Performance Comparison [Glenn 2011]

  5. De novo genome sequencing Genome re-sequencing RNA-Seq Non-coding RNAs Structural variation ChIP-Seq Methyl-Seq Metagenomics Paleogenomics Viral quasispecies … many more biological measurements “reduced” to NGS sequencing Applications

  6. RNA Virus Replication High mutation rate (~10-4) Lauring & Andino, PLoS Pathogens 2011

  7. How Are Quasispecies Contributing to Virus Persistence and Evolution? • Variants differ in • Virulence • Ability to escape immune response • Resistance to antiviral therapies • Tissue tropism Lauring & Andino, PLoS Pathogens 2011

  8. 454 Pyrosequencing Workflow

  9. Shotgun vs. Amplicon Reads • Shotgun reads • starting positions distributed ~uniformly • Amplicon reads • reads have predefined start/end positions covering fixed overlapping windows

  10. Quasispecies Spectrum Reconstruction (QSR) Problem • Given • Shotgun/ampliconpyrosequencing reads from a quasispecies population of unknown size and distribution • Reconstruct the quasispecies spectrum • Sequences • Frequencies

  11. Prior Work • Eriksson et al 2008 • maximum parsimony using Dilworth’s theorem, clustering, EM • Westbrooks et al. 2008 • min-cost network flow • Zagordiet al 2010-11 (ShoRAH) • probabilistic clustering based on a Dirichlet process mixture • Prosperiet al 2011 (amplicon based) • based on measure of population diversity • Huang et al 2011 (QColors) • Parsimonious reconstruction of quasispecies subsequences using constraint programming within regions with sufficient variability

  12. Outline • Background • Quasispecies spectrum reconstruction from shotgun NGS reads • Quasispecies spectrum reconstruction from ampliconNGS reads • Quasispecies spectrum reconstruction for IBV • Ongoing and future work

  13. ViSpA: Viral Spectrum Assembler • Key features • Error correction both pre-alignment (based on k-mers) and post-alignment • Quasispecies assembly based on maximum-bandwidth paths in weighted read graphs • Frequency estimation via EM on all reads • Freely available at http://alla.cs.gsu.edu/software/VISPA/vispa.html

  14. ViSpA Flow Read Error Correction Read Alignment Preprocessing of Aligned Reads Shotgun 454 reads Frequency Estimation Read Graph Construction Contig Assembly Quasispecies sequences w/ frequencies

  15. k-mer Error Correction [Skums et al.] Zhao X et al 2010 • Calculate k-mers and their frequencies (k-counts) • Assume that kmers with high k-counts (“solid” k-mers) are correct, while k-mers with low k-counts (“weak” k-mers) contain errors • Determine the threshold k-count (error threshold), which distinguishes solid kmers from weak k-mers. • Find error regions. • Correct the errors in error regions

  16. Iterative Read Alignment Read Alignment vs Reference Build Consensus Read Re-Alignment vs. Consensus More Reads Aligned? Yes No Post- processing

  17. 454 Sequencing Errors • Sequencing error rate ~ 0.1% • Most errors due to incorrect resolution of homopolymers • over-calls (insertions) • 65-75% of errors • under-calls (deletions) • 20-30% of errors

  18. Post-processing of Aligned Reads • Deletions in reads: D • Insertions into reference: I • Additional error correction: • Replace deletions supported by a single read with either the allele present in all other reads or N • Remove insertions supported by a single read

  19. Read Graph: Vertices ACTGGTCCCTCCTGAGTGT GGTCCCTCCT TGGTCACTCGTGAG ACCTCATCGAAGCGGCGTCCT Subread = completely contained in other read with ≤ n mismatches. Superreads = not subreads => vertices in the read graph

  20. Read Graph: Edges • Edge b/w two vertices if there is an overlap between superreads and they agree on their overlap with ≤ m mismatches • Transitive reduction

  21. Edge Cost Δ where j is the number of mismatches in overlap o, ε is 454 error rate Cost measures the uncertainty that two superreads belong to the same quasispecies. OverhangΔis the shift in start positions of two overlapping superreads.

  22. Contig Assembly - Path to Sequence • Compute an s-t-Max Bandwidth Path through each vertex (maximizing minimum edge cost) • Build coarse sequence out of each path’s superreads: • For each position: >70%-majority if it exists, otherwise N • Replace N’s in coarse sequence with weighted consensus obtained from all reads • Select unique sequences out of constructed sequences

  23. Frequency Estimation – EM Algorithm • E step: • M step: • Bipartite graph: • Qq is a candidate with frequency fq • Rr is a read with observed frequency or • Weight hq,r= probability that read r is produced by quasispecies q with j mismatches

  24. Experimental Validation • Simulations • Error-free reads from known HCV quasispecies • Reads with errors generated by FlowSim (Balser et al. 2010) • Real 454 reads • HIV and HCV data • Comparison with ShoRAH

  25. Simulations: Error-Free Reads • 44 real qsps (1739 bp long) from the E1E2 region of Hepatitis C virus (von Hahn et al. (2006)) • Simulated reads: • 4 populations sizes: 10, 20, 30, 40 sequences • Geometric distribution • The quasispecies population: • Number of reads between 20K and 100K • Read length distribution N(μ,400); μ varied from 200 to 500

  26. Results

  27. Simulations with FlowSim • 44 real quasispecies sequences (1739 bp long) from the E1E2 region of Hepatitis C virus (von Hahn et al. (2006)) • 30K reads with average length 350bp • 100 bootstrapping tests on 10% - reduced data • For the i-th (i = 1, .., 10) most frequent sequence assembled on the whole data, we record its reproducibility= percentage of runs when there is a match (exact or with at most k mismatches) among 10 most frequent sequences found on reduced data.

  28. Bootstraping Tests • ShoRAH outperforms ViSpA due to its read correction • If ViSpA is used on ShoRAH-corrected reads (ShoRAHreads+ViSpA), the results drastically improve

  29. 454 Reads of HIV Qsps • 55,611 reads (average read length 345bp) from ten 1.5Kbp long region of HIV-1 (Zagordi et al.2010) • No removal of low-quality reads • ~99% of reads has at least one indel • ~11.6 % of reads with at least one N • ShoRAH correctly infers only 2 qspssequences with <=4 mismatches • ViSpA correctly infers 5 qspswith <=2 mismatches , 2 qsps are inferred exactly

  30. Outline • Background • Quasispecies spectrum reconstruction from shotgun NGS reads • Quasispecies spectrum reconstruction from ampliconNGS reads • Quasispecies spectrum reconstruction for IBV • Ongoing and future work

  31. Amplicon Sequencing Challenges • Distinct quasispecies may be indistinguishable in an amplicon interval • Multiple reads from consecutive amplicons may match over theiroverlap

  32. Prosperi et al. 2011 • First published approach for amplicons • Based on the idea of guide distribution • choose most variable amplicon • extend to right/left with matching reads, breaking ties by rank

  33. Read Graph for Amplicons • K amplicons → K-staged read graph • vertices → distinct reads • edges → reads with consistent overlap • vertices, edges have a count function

  34. Read Graph • May transform bi-cliquesinto 'fork' subgraphs • common overlap is represented by fork vertex

  35. Observed vs Ideal Read Frequencies • Ideal frequency • consistent frequency across forks • Observed frequency (count) • inconsistent frequency across forks

  36. Fork Balancing Problem • Given • Set of reads and respective frequencies • Find • Minimal frequency offsets balancing all forks • Simplest approach is to scale frequencies from left to right

  37. Least Squares Balancing • Quadratic Program for read offsets • q – fork, oi – observed frequency, xi – frequency offset

  38. Fork Resolution: Parsimony 6 8 4 2 12 8 6 8 6 6 6 8 4 4 2 2 4 8 4 4 2 2 4 4 4 2 2 2 4 2 (a) (b)

  39. Fork Resolution: Max Likelihood • Given a forest, ML = # of ways to produce observed reads / 2^(#qsp): • Can be computed efficiently for trees: multiply by binomial coefficient of a leaf and its parent edge, prune the edge, and iterate • Solution (b) has a larger likelihood than (a) although both have 3 qsp’s • (a) (4 choose 2) * (8 choose 4) * (8 choose 4)/2^20 = 29400/2^20 ~ 2.8% • (b) (12 choose 6) * (4 choose 2)*(4 choose 2)/2^20 = 33264/2^20 ~ 3.3% 12 8 6 8 6 6 6 8 4 4 2 2 4 8 4 4 2 2 4 4 4 2 2 2 4 2 (a) (b)

  40. Fork Resolution: Min Entropy 12 8 6 8 6 6 6 8 4 4 2 • Solution (b) also has a lower entropy than (a) • (a) -[ (8/20)log(8/20) + (8/20)log(8/20) + (4/20)log(4/20) ] ~ 1.522 • (b) -[ (12/20)log(4/20) + (4/20)log(4/20) + (4/20)log(4/20) ] ~ 1.37 2 4 8 4 4 2 2 4 4 4 2 2 2 4 2 (a) (b)

  41. Local Optimization: Greedy Method

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  50. Global Optimization: Maximum Bandwidth

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