Detection of Homologous Recombination Events in Bacterial Genomes

作者：Wang Wei Bung; Jiang Tao; Gardner Shea^*

来源：PLos One, 2013, 8(10): e75230.

DOI：10.1371/journal.pone.0075230

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/).

• 出版日期2013-10-7