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Efficient haplotype matching and storage using the positional Burrows-Wheeler transform (PBWT)

Richard Durbin. Bioinformatics. 2014.

Abstract

Motivation: Over the last few years, methods based on suffix arrays using the Burrows-Wheeler Transform have been widely used for DNA sequence read matching and assembly. These provide very fast search algorithms, linear in the search pattern size, on a highly compressible representation of the dataset being searched. Meanwhile, algorithmic development for genotype data has concentrated on statistical methods for phasing and imputation, based on probabilistic matching to hidden Markov model representations of the reference data, which while powerful are much less computationally efficient. Here a theory of haplotype matching using suffix array ideas is developed, which should scale too much larger datasets than those currently handled by genotype algorithms.

Results: Given M sequences with N bi-allelic variable sites, an O(NM) algorithm to derive a representation of the data based on positional prefix arrays is given, which is termed the positional Burrows-Wheeler transform (PBWT). On large datasets this compresses with run-length encoding by more than a factor of a hundred smaller than using gzip on the raw data. Using this representation a method is given to find all maximal haplotype matches within the set in O(NM) time rather than O(NM(2)) as expected from naive pairwise comparison, and also a fast algorithm, empirically independent of M given sufficient memory for indexes, to find maximal matches between a new sequence and the set. The discussion includes some proposals about how these approaches could be used for imputation and phasing.

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Fig. 1.

A set of haplotype sequences sorted in order of reversed prefixes at position k, showing the set of values at k isolated from those before and after, and on the right hand side how the order at position (k + 1) is derived from that at k as in Algorithm 1. Maximal substrings shared with the preceding sequence ending at k are shown bold underlined; these start at position _dk_[_i_] as calculated in Algorithm 2

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