Auto Sequencer: A DNA Sequence Alignment and Assembly Tool

The process of determining the exact order of nucleotides in DNA is a crucial component of a wide variety of research applications known as DNA sequencing. Over the last fifty years, several DNA sequencing technologies have been well characterized through their nature and the kind of output they pro...

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Main Authors: Abhi Aggarwal, Landon Zarowny, Robert E Campbell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Alberta Library 2018-06-01
Series:Spectrum
Online Access:https://spectrumjournal.ca/index.php/spectrum/article/view/35
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description The process of determining the exact order of nucleotides in DNA is a crucial component of a wide variety of research applications known as DNA sequencing. Over the last fifty years, several DNA sequencing technologies have been well characterized through their nature and the kind of output they provide. Even with significant advances in DNA sequencing technology, sequencing and assembly of large pieces of DNA remains a complex task. It requires sequencing small reads of DNA at a time, and performing DNA sequence assembly to merge the individual pieces into a single contiguous sequence. DNA sequence assembly, albeit tedious and time consuming, is a process in which short DNA sequence fragments are merged into longer fragments in the attempt to reconstruct the original DNA sequence. This is usually achieved by manually identifying sequence overlaps between two reads before aligning them into one contiguous sequence. Then, with the aid of online tools or software, this contiguous sequence is translated into protein sequence. While this process may only take a few minutes, the complexity of sequence translation and assembly can be driven by two major challenges: finding the most reasonable overlap in sequences that may contain repeats or low quality regions, and outputting both nucleotide and protein sequence in an easy to use, comprehensive output. To facilitate this process, we introduce an all-in-one tool: Auto Sequencer. This user-friendly tool can combine and translate raw DNA sequence files by finding the most reasonable overlap between them displaying outputs in flexible formats.
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spelling doaj.art-b8806613bdd64982a09e85eacc5cfc322022-12-21T22:25:49ZengUniversity of Alberta LibrarySpectrum2561-78422018-06-01110.29173/spectrum3522Auto Sequencer: A DNA Sequence Alignment and Assembly ToolAbhi Aggarwal0Landon Zarowny1Robert E Campbell2Department of Chemistry, University of AlbertaDepartment of Chemistry, University of AlbertaDepartment of Chemistry, University of AlbertaThe process of determining the exact order of nucleotides in DNA is a crucial component of a wide variety of research applications known as DNA sequencing. Over the last fifty years, several DNA sequencing technologies have been well characterized through their nature and the kind of output they provide. Even with significant advances in DNA sequencing technology, sequencing and assembly of large pieces of DNA remains a complex task. It requires sequencing small reads of DNA at a time, and performing DNA sequence assembly to merge the individual pieces into a single contiguous sequence. DNA sequence assembly, albeit tedious and time consuming, is a process in which short DNA sequence fragments are merged into longer fragments in the attempt to reconstruct the original DNA sequence. This is usually achieved by manually identifying sequence overlaps between two reads before aligning them into one contiguous sequence. Then, with the aid of online tools or software, this contiguous sequence is translated into protein sequence. While this process may only take a few minutes, the complexity of sequence translation and assembly can be driven by two major challenges: finding the most reasonable overlap in sequences that may contain repeats or low quality regions, and outputting both nucleotide and protein sequence in an easy to use, comprehensive output. To facilitate this process, we introduce an all-in-one tool: Auto Sequencer. This user-friendly tool can combine and translate raw DNA sequence files by finding the most reasonable overlap between them displaying outputs in flexible formats.https://spectrumjournal.ca/index.php/spectrum/article/view/35
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