A presentation from the Workshop: Principles, potential, and limitations of novel molecular methods in water engineering; from amplicon sequencing to omics methods. Held at the Microbial Ecology and Water Engineering 2013 (MEWE 2013) July 7 – 10, 2013.
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The benefits of environment specific curation of the public databases for taxonomic assignment
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Importance of a
curated 16S
database
Aaron Marc Saunders
MEWE 2013
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What’s in a
name?
Aaron Marc Saunders
MEWE 2013
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Agenda
1. What is taxonomic assignment?
2. Why all these names?
3. Taxonomic assignment: details
4. Ecosystem-specific curation of
taxonomy
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Amplicon sequencing
1k - 1 million
sequences
1000’s species
sequence clustering
OTU-based
analysis
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Amplicon sequencing
0.1-1 million reads 1000’s OTUs
sequence clustering
Taxonomic
assignment
OTU-based
analysis
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Many studies stop here…
Proteobacteria
Bacteroidetes
Firmicutes
Actinobacteria
Etc…
SAMPLES
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Amplicon sequencing
0.1-1 million reads 1000’s OTUs
300 genera
sequence clustering
Taxonomic
assignment
Functional
data
OTU-based
analysis
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Functional information
• Isolates
• Functional 16S rRNA work
– Stable isotope probing
• Metagenomics
• In situ studies
– Microscopy – eg. inclusion bodies
– Microautoradiography
– Raman or NanoSIMS
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Metagenomics
FA-CoA
TAG
α-glucan
(glycogen)
2-Oxoglutarate
Isocitrate
Citrate
Fumarate
Malate Glyoxylate
Pyruvate
Glyceraldehyde-3P
NO3
-
NO3
-
NO3
-
NO2
-
NO3
-
NH4
NH4
CO2
Glutamate
Glutamate
NO2
-
NO2
-
NO2
-
NO2
-
Fructose-6P
Trehalose
Glucuronate
Gluconate
KDPG
PH2MVPHB
PHV
PH2MB
H+
H+
N2
N2
2-oxoglutarate
Glyoxylate
E.T.C.
H+
H2O
O2
Succinate Succinyl-CoA
Oxaloacetate
Propionyl-CoA
Acetyl-CoA
Acetyl-CoA
Glycerol
?
?
H+
Glucose-6P
Formate
Acetyl-CoA Propionyl-CoA
Propionyl-CoA
Acetyl-CoA
b. Aerobic
Simon McIllroy
Competibacter metabolic model
Poster
Søren Karst
Talk: Wed 1:15 pm
Omics and Other Methods
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Amplicon sequencing
0.1-1 million reads 1000’s OTUs
300 genera
sequence clustering
Taxonomic
assignment
Functional
data
OTU-based
analysis
Species within a genera tend to be similar
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What is Tax assignment?
• Putting a name to a sequence
• Phylogeny = gold-standard
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Phylogenetic analysis
• Heirarchical clustering based on inferred
evolutionary relationships
• Requires good global alignment
• Uses evolutionary model
• Computationaly intensive
• Requires long sequences (> 1000 nt)
• Requires specific training/knowledge
Source: http://www.phylogeny.fr
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What is Tax assignment?
• Putting a name to a sequence
• Phylogeny = ”gold-standard”
• BLAST et al.
– Highest similarity match
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NCBI BLAST as classifier
”BLAST is the wikipedia of classification”
• Database is uncurated!
• Often gives ambiguous result
– uncultured bacterium again!
• Taxonomy not based on phylogenetic analysis
• BLAST uses local alignment
– Good only closely-related sequences
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Taxonomic assignment
Genus A
Genus B
Genus C
Family
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Taxonomic assignment
Dechloromonas
Accumulibacter
Zoogloea
Family
Genus
Rhodocyclaceae
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Taxonomic assignment
Dechloromonas
Accumulibacter
Zoogloea
Class Order Family Genus
Betaproteobacteria Rhodocyclales Rhodocyclaceae Accumulibacter
Family
Rhodocyclaceae
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Taxonomic assignment
Dechloromonas
Accumulibacter
Zoogloea
Class Order Family Genus
Betaproteobacteria Rhodocyclales Rhodocyclaceae Accumulibacter
Family
Rhodocyclaceae
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Taxonomic assignment
Dechloromonas
Accumulibacter
Zoogloea
93% identity
92% identity
94% identity
Class Order Family Genus
Betaproteobacteria Rhodocyclales Rhodocyclaceae -
Family
Rhodocyclaceae
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Using a ”Classifier”
• Uses an existing phylogeny
• lowest tax level to give significant match
• On-line tools:
http://www.arb-silva.dehttp://greengenes.lbl.gov http://rdp.cme.msu.edu
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An incomplete list of methods
• Word matching
– RDP classifier (8-base baysien probability)
• Pairwise distance to top BLAST hits
– Global Alignment for Sequence Taxonomy (GAST)
• BLAST with ”Lowest Common Ancestor”
– PyroClust (in Pyrotagger)
– MEGAN
• ”Phylogenetic placement”
– pplacer
– RaxML
– ARB parsimony insertion
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Greengenes assignment
species
(OTU)
Class Order Family Genus
OTU1 Betaproteobacteria Nitrosomonadales Nitrosomonadaceae Nitrosomonas
OTU2 Nitrospira Nitrospirales Nitrospiraceae Nitrospira
OTU3 Betaproteobacteria Rhodocyclales Rhodocyclaceae Propionivibrio
OTU4 Betaproteobacteria Gallionellales Gallionellaceae ??
OTU5 Gammaproteobacteria ?? ?? ??
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Taxonomic assignment
Dechloromonas
Accumulibacter
Zoogloea
Class Order Family Genus
Betaproteobacteria Rhodocyclales Rhodocyclaceae Accumulibacter
Family
Rhodocyclaceae
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Database incomplete
Dechloromonas
Accumulibacter
Zoogloea
Family
Rhodocyclaceae
Class Order Family Genus
Betaproteobacteria Rhodocyclales Rhodocyclaceae Dechloromonas
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Taxonomy incomplete
Dechloromonas
Accumulibacter
Zoogloea
Family
Rhodocyclaceae
Class Order Family Genus
Betaproteobacteria Rhodocyclales Rhodocyclaceae Dechloromonas
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Database incomplete
Dechloromonas
Accumulibacter
Zoogloea
Family
Rhodocyclaceae
Class Order Family Genus
Betaproteobacteria Rhodocyclales Rhodocyclaceae ??
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Nitrotoga
Class Order Family Genus
Betaproteobacteria Gallionellales Gallionellaceae ??
Greengenes taxonomy:
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Curated taxonomy
species
(OTU)
Class Order Family Genus
OTU1 Betaproteobacteria Nitrosomonadales Nitrosomonadaceae Nitrosomonas
OTU2 Nitrospira Nitrospirales Nitrospiraceae Nitrospira
OTU3 Betaproteobacteria Rhodocyclales Rhodocyclaceae Accumulibacter
OTU4 Betaproteobacteria Gallionellales Gallionellaceae Nitrotoga
OTU5 Gammaproteobacteria Competibacterales Competibacteraceae Competibacter
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genus
Nitrite-oxidisers
0.3
0.2
0.1
0
Percentabundance
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Activated sludge
communities have a
common core of
abundant organisms
Talk: Tuesday 2 pm ”Phosphorus removal”
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Notas del editor
Intro
Figure: Nitrotoga, a newly-discovered genus of nitrite-oxidisers, wasfound to becore in EPPR plants and in >1% in some. Theyarethereforelikelymaking a significantcontribution to nitriteoxidiation in theseplants.
Figure: Nitrotoga, a newly-discovered genus of nitrite-oxidisers, wasfound to becore in EPPR plants and in >1% in some. Theyarethereforelikelymaking a significantcontribution to nitriteoxidiation in theseplants.
Figure: Nitrotoga, a newly-discovered genus of nitrite-oxidisers, wasfound to becore in EPPR plants and in >1% in some. Theyarethereforelikelymaking a significantcontribution to nitriteoxidiation in theseplants.
Figure: Nitrotoga, a newly-discovered genus of nitrite-oxidisers, wasfound to becore in EPPR plants and in >1% in some. Theyarethereforelikelymaking a significantcontribution to nitriteoxidiation in theseplants.