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Protein-level assembly increases protein sequence recovery from metagenomic samples manyfold
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The open-source de novo protein-level assembler, Plass ( https://plass.mmseqs.com ), assembles six-frame-translated sequencing reads into protein sequences. It recovers 2–10 times more protein sequences from complex metagenomes and can assemble huge datasets. We assembled two redundancy-filtered reference protein catalogs, 2 billion sequences from 640 soil samples (soil reference protein catalog) and 292 million sequences from 775 marine eukaryotic metatranscriptomes (marine eukaryotic reference catalog), the largest free collections of protein sequences. The protein-level assembler can assemble protein catalogs from raw metagenomic sequencing data, enabling large-scale metagenomics studies.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Steinegger, M., Mirdita, M., & Söding, J.
- Affiliations
- Seoul National University (KR)
- Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Steinegger, Martin
- Söding, Johannes
- Venue
- Nature Methods
- Published
- 2019-06-24
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 603-606
- ISSN
- 1548-7091 (ISSN-L)
- 1548-7105
- OpenAlex
- W2949342052
- Cited by
- 445
- References
- 31
- Citations by year
- 2026: 38 · 2025: 78 · 2024: 101 · 2023: 78 · 2022: 71 · 2021: 50 · 2020: 23 · 2019: 6
- FWCI
- 12.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- Nature Methods (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
- Seoul National University Open Repository (Seoul National University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Materials and Energy Research Center
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Keywords
- metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, soil metagenome
- MeSH terms
- Amino Acid Sequence, Codon, Proteins, Open Reading Frames, Metagenomics
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