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Metagenome-assembled genome extraction and analysis from microbiomes using KBase

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Abstract

Uncultivated Bacteria and Archaea account for the vast majority of species on Earth, but obtaining their genomes directly from the environment, using shotgun sequencing, has only become possible recently. To realize the hope of capturing Earth’s microbial genetic complement and to facilitate the investigation of the functional roles of specific lineages in a given ecosystem, technologies that accelerate the recovery of high-quality genomes are necessary. We present a series of analysis steps and data products for the extraction of high-quality metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) from microbiomes using the U.S. Department of Energy Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) platform (http://www.kbase.us/). Overall, these steps take about a day to obtain extracted genomes when starting from smaller environmental shotgun read libraries, or up to about a week from larger libraries. In KBase, the process is end-to-end, allowing a user to go from the initial sequencing reads all the way through to MAGs, which can then be analyzed with other KBase capabilities such as phylogenetic placement, functional assignment, metabolic modeling, pangenome functional profiling, RNA-Seq and others. While portions of such capabilities are available individually from other resources, the combination of the intuitive usability, data interoperability and integration of tools in a freely available computational resource makes KBase a powerful platform for obtaining MAGs from microbiomes. While this workflow offers tools for each of the key steps in the genome extraction process, it also provides a scaffold that can be easily extended with additional MAG recovery and analysis tools, via the KBase software development kit (SDK).

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Fig. 1: Overview of MAG extraction data and analysis workflow using KBase apps.
Fig. 2: Example FastQC app report, before and after base call quality trimming with Trimmomatic.
Fig. 3: Stacked bar plots of lineage abundance measured in the compost enrichment by the Kaiju app.
Fig. 4: Krona plot of lineages measured in the compost enrichment by the Kaiju app.
Fig. 5: Cumulative and sorted contig lengths of different assemblies from the compost enrichment.
Fig. 6: Summary statistics and histograms of contig lengths of different assemblies.
Fig. 7: MaxBin2 bin contig plot.
Fig. 8: DAS-Tool bin optimization plot.
Fig. 9: CheckM quality assessment of bins plot.
Fig. 10: Diagram of bin extraction to assembly data objects.
Fig. 11: Phylogenetic placement of MAGs.
Fig. 12: DRAM functional classification of MAGs.
Fig. 13: Gene identification of targeted domain families.

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Data availability

The analyses and data discussed are available via the ‘dynamic’ KBase Narratives https://narrative.kbase.us/narrative/33233 (Compost) and https://narrative.kbase.us/narrative/62384 (Moab Desert Crust). Additionally, ‘static’ HTML narratives have been published on KBase [https://docs.kbase.us/getting-started/narrative/share#publishing-a-static-narrative] from each of these dynamic Narratives. They are available at https://kbase.us/n/33233/628/ (Compost78, https://doi.org/10.25982/33233.606/1831502) and https://kbase.us/n/62384/334/ (Moab Desert Crust79, https://doi.org/10.25982/62384.253/1831503). All input and derived data objects can be exported using standard formats from the Narratives by clicking on the given object, and then on the download arrow in the data panel in the upper left of the dynamic Narrative, as described at https://docs.kbase.us/data/upload-download-guide/downloads.

Code availability

All KBase code is open source under the Massachusetts Institute of Technology license and available from Github at https://github.com/kbase and https://github.com/kbaseapps. All externally developed software run in KBase is also open source by policy and available from the respective repositories, typically Github, Gitlab, Bitbucket or Sourceforge (‘Code versions’ section).

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The authors thank S. Singer for the use of the Compost sequence data and T. Northen for the Desert Crust sequence data. We thank U. Karaoz and E.L. Brodie for the use of the MicroTrait HMMs. We thank K. Wrighton, M. Shaffer and M. Borton for the use of their DRAM app and P. Chain, M. Flynn and C. Lo for the use of their GOTTCHA2 app. We thank D. Parks and G. Tyson for the use of CheckM and P.-A. Chaumeil, D. Parks, A. J. Mussig and P. Hugenholtz for the use of GTDB-Tk. KBase especially thanks all primary developers whose tools have been wrapped as apps in KBase; please make sure to cite their primary publications if you use any of those apps. KBase greatly appreciates funding by the Genomic Science program within the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research under award nos. DE-AC02-05CH11231, DE-AC02-06CH11357, DE-AC05-00OR22725 and DE-AC02-98CH10886.

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Chivian, D., Jungbluth, S.P., Dehal, P.S. et al. Metagenome-assembled genome extraction and analysis from microbiomes using KBase. Nat Protoc 18, 208–238 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41596-022-00747-x

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