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Heli Harvala
dblp:426/1034
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2024
0000-0001-9154-4190ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Bioinformatics and computational biology · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bioinformatics and computational biology › genomics › viral genomics
genomic surveillance |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Castanet: a pipeline for rapid analysis of targeted multi-pathogen genomic data · Bioinform. 2024 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology › genomics
pathogen genomics |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Castanet: a pipeline for rapid analysis of targeted multi-pathogen genomic data · Bioinform. 2024 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
consensus sequence generation · 0.8capture efficiency quantification · 0.8
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Castanet: a pipeline for rapid analysis of targeted multi-pathogen genomic dataabstractMOTIVATION: Target enrichment strategies generate genomic data from multiple pathogens in a single process, greatly improving sensitivity over metagenomic sequencing and enabling cost-effective, high-throughput surveillance and clinical applications. However, uptake by research and clinical laboratories is constrained by an absence of computational tools that are specifically designed for the analysis of multi-pathogen enrichment sequence data. Here we present an analysis pipeline, Castanet, for use with multi-pathogen enrichment sequencing data. Castanet is designed to work with short-read data produced by existing targeted enrichment strategies, but can be readily deployed on any BAM file generated by another methodology. Also included are an optional graphical interface and installer script. RESULTS: In addition to genome reconstruction, Castanet reports method-specific metrics that enable quantification of capture efficiency, estimation of pathogen load, differentiation of low-level positives from contamination, and assessment of sequencing quality. Castanet can be used as a traditional end-to-end pipeline for consensus generation, but its strength lies in the ability to process a flexible, pre-defined set of pathogens of interest directly from multi-pathogen enrichment experiments. In our tests, Castanet consensus sequences were accurate reconstructions of reference sequences, including in instances where multiple strains of the same pathogen were present. Castanet performs effectively on standard computers and can process the entire output of a 96-sample enrichment sequencing run (50M reads) using a single batch process command, in $<$2 h. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Source code freely available under GPL-3 license at https://github.com/MultipathogenGenomics/castanet, implemented in Python 3.10 and supported in Ubuntu Linux 22.04. The data underlying this article are available in Europe Nucleotide Archives, at https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/view/PRJEB77004. Richard Mayne, Shannah Secret, Cyndi Geoghegan, Amy Trebes, Kai Kean, Kaitlin Reid, Gu-Lung Lin, M. Azim Ansari, Mariateresa de Cesare, David G. Bonsall, Ivo Elliott, Paolo Piazza, Anthony Brown 0005, James Bray, Julian C. Knight, Heli Harvala, Judith Breuer, Peter Simmonds, Rory J. Bowden, Tanya Golubchik |
Bioinform. | 16 |