@inproceedings{d24ad923db094a6281b59da5a88b2ada,
title = "Identifying and Resolving Genome Misassembly Issues Important for Biomarker Discovery in the Protozoan Parasite, Cryptosporidium",
abstract = "Cryptosporidium is a protozoan parasite that causes a diarrhoeal disease in humans, and which may be spread by swimming pools or infected municipal water supplies. It can be a serious health risk for individuals with weakened immune systems. Genomics has the potential to help control this pathogen, but until recently, it has not been possible to perform whole genome sequencing directly from human stool samples. This is no longer the case, and there are now at least a dozen high quality genomes available via resources like CryptoDB and NCBI, with other isolates being sequenced. The analysis of these genomes will improve current approaches for tracking sources of contamination and routes of transmission by allowing the identification of biomarkers, such as multiple-locus variable tandem repeat regions (VNTRs). However, problems remain due to highly uneven sequence coverage, which causes serious errors and artefacts in the genome assemblies produced by a number of popular assemblers. Her e we discuss these assembly issues, and describe our strategy to generate genome assemblies of sufficient quality to enable the discovery of new VNTR biomarkers",
keywords = "Assembly, Biomarker Discovery, Clinical Microbiology, Cryptosporidium, Genomics, Gini, Pathogen Genomics",
author = "Arthur Morris and Justin Pachebat and Guy Robinson and Chalmers, {Rachel M.} and Martin Swain",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 by SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved.; BIOSTEC 2019: 12th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies ; Conference date: 22-02-2019 Through 24-02-2019",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.5220/0007397200900100",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-989-758-353-7",
volume = "3",
series = "BIOINFORMATICS 2019 - 10th International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms, Proceedings; Part of 12th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2019",
publisher = "SciTePress",
pages = "90--100",
editor = "{De Maria}, Elisabetta and Ana Fred and Hugo Gamboa",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies",
}
