Intensity normalization improves color calling in SOLiD sequencing

Nat Methods. 2010 May;7(5):336-7. doi: 10.1038/nmeth0510-336.

Abstract

ABI’s SOLiD system is a commonly used massively parallel DNA sequencing platform for applications including genotyping and structural variation analysis to transcriptome quantification and reconstruction. Like other sequencing technologies, it measures fluorescence intensities from dye-labeled molecules to determine the sequence of DNA fragments. Ultimately, sequences are determined by complicated statistical manipulations of noisy intensity measurements but systematic biases may mislead downstream analysis. A number of proposed methods improve base-calling and quality metrics for other sequencing technologies- and we now present Rsolid, software implementing an intensity normalization strategy for the SOLiD platform that substantially improves yield and accuracy at small computational costs (7% increase in total matches, 13% in perfect matches, 5% reduced error rate, and substantial reduction in false-positive SNP calls).

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Color
  • DNA / analysis
  • DNA, Bacterial / analysis
  • Escherichia coli / genetics
  • Humans
  • Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide*
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA / methods*
  • Software

Substances

  • DNA, Bacterial
  • DNA