xMAN: extreme MApping of OligoNucleotides

Wei Li,J. Carroll,Myles A. Brown,Xiaole Shirley Liu

Published 2008 in BMC Genomics

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BackgroundThe ability to rapidly map millions of oligonucleotide fragments to a reference genome is crucial to many high throughput genomic technologies.ResultsWe propose an intuitive and efficient algorithm, titled ex treme MA pping of OligoN ucleotide (xMAN), to rapidly map millions of oligonucleotide fragments to a genome of any length. By converting oligonucleotides to integers hashed in RAM, xMAN can scan through genomes using bit shifting operation and achieve at least one order of magnitude speed increase over existing tools. xMAN can map the 42 million 25-mer probes on the Affymetrix whole human genome tiling arrays to the entire genome in less than 6 CPU hours.ConclusionsIn addition to the speed advantage, we found the probe mapping of xMAN to substantially improve the final analysis results in both a spike-in experiment on ENCODE tiling arrays and an estrogen receptor ChIP-chip experiment on whole human genome tiling arrays. Those improvements were confirmed by direct ChIP and real-time PCR assay. xMAN can be further extended for application to other high-throughput genomic technologies for oligonucleotide mapping.

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