Detection of Homologous Recombination Events in Bacterial Genomes

Wei-Bung Wang, Tao Jiang and Shea Gardner

PLOS ONE, 2013, vol. 8, issue 10, 1-14

Abstract: We study the detection of mutations, sequencing errors, and homologous recombination events (HREs) in a set of closely related microbial genomes. We base the model on single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and break the genomes into blocks to handle the rearrangement problem. Then we apply a dynamic programming algorithm to model whether changes within each block are likely a result of mutations, sequencing errors, or HREs. Results from simulation experiments show that we can detect 31%–61% of HREs and the precision of our detection is about 48%–90% depending on the rates of mutation and missing data. The HREfinder software for predicting HREs in a set of whole genomes is available as open source (http://sourceforge.net/projects/hrefinder/).

Date: 2013
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