Y axis represents mean percentage of taxonomically assigned reads within each group. Ancient sample groups are 'pre-agricultural' and 'pre-antibiotic' humans and are taken from skeletal remains, whereas Modern Day Human calculus and HMP plaque samples come from living individuals. Colours correspond to sample type. Orange: Homo calculus; Grey: non-calculus. We also visualised the prokaryotic over eukaryotic content.
See the main publication and below for further discussion of these observations. Eukaryotic reference sequences between all calculus, laboratory controls and comparative sources.
Y-axis is log10 scaled. Eukaryotic reference sequences between different groups of humans. Orange: Homo ; Grey: non-calculus.
Due to taphonomic processes, the original endogenous DNA can be come very degraded and also entirely lost. This can lead to samples containing only contaminant DNA and thus cause major skews and complications in downstream analysis.
Identifying well-preserved samples containing a sufficient fraction of the original microbiome is critical, but equally so is assessing that their DNA is not derived from modern contamination.
The MALT OTU table s alone does not give us much information about the genetic preservation of the original oral signature within each individual. To get a rapid idea of the level of identifiable oral taxa in each individual, I came up with a simple visualisation to show how abundant the hpoefully endogenous oral signal in the samples are. It is based on the decay of the fraction of oral taxa identified when looking from most to least abundant taxa within a sample.
The concept is further described in the main publication supplement, but a schematic on how to interpret them can be seen here:. Figure R8 Schematic diagram of a cumulative percent decay method of preservation assessment. An archaeological sample bottom right with no endogenous oral content will have few oral taxa, and may have occasional modern contaminants resulting in a non-linear relationship. Given the large differences between the initial ranks due to small denominators, a 'burn-in' like procedure is applied.
A curve that does not exceed this threshold at any point from this rank onwards, is considered not to have sufficient preservation for downstream analysis. To generate the database of oral taxa, I used the steps outlined in the notebook scripts. Note that database also requires manual curation over time as more taxa are identified and the isolation sources reported. To actually generate the visualisations, the R notebook scripts. Rmd describes how to calculate the percent decay curves, including burn-in calculations, and how to display the curves.
Figure R9 Cumulative percent decay plots of fraction of oral taxa across taxa ordered by abundance rank. Taxonomic assignment against the: a NCBI nt database, and b a custom NCBI RefSeq database showing a large number of calculus samples displayed greater levels of preservation blue , and although a smaller number do not pass the estimated preservation threshold red.
Plots are limited to rank positions x-axis for visualization purposes. Point at which the per-sample threshold is considered is based on when the fluctuation of the fraction of oral taxa i.
Table R1 Summary of sample counts passing preservation thresholds as implemented in the cumulative percent decay method. Preservation was assessed using the cumulative percent decay method with the fluctuation burn-in threshold based on the MALT OTU tables. Table R2 Comparison of number of individuals with supported good- or low- preservation assignment between the nt and custom RefSeq database.
We next wanted to compare our screening method to a less-suitable but more established approach, Sourcetracker analysis. As we have shotgun data, we instead extracted reads with sequence similarity to translated 16S rRNA sequences and ran on that.
The script scripts. To get the number of 16S rRNA reads that mapped, we can ran script scripts. Summary statistic visualisation of mapping can be seen under scripts. This is because we are not dealing directly with amplicon data, and we also have damage which would affect reliability of assignment. These are stored in the file scripts. To actually run the clustering analysis and generate our OTU table we ran the following.
Sourcetracker I realised later doesn't do rarefaction properly as it allows sampling with replacement of the OTUS. Therefore, we needed to manually remove samples that have less than OTUs which is the default rarefaction level in Sourcetracker - see below. Looking at the table summary in Data R13 summary shows that fortunately this will remove very few samples and will remove mostly blanks. We also only wanted to look at genus level assignments, given species specific IDs could be unreliable due to damage and different mixtures of strain in different individuals.
Figure R12 Distributions of the number of OTUs identified after closed-reference clustering of 16S rRNA reads across all calculus, laboratory controls and comparative sources in this study. Ancient sample groups are 'pre-agricultural' and 'pre-antibiotic' humans and are taken from skeletal remains, whereas Modern Day Human calculus and plaque samples come from living individuals. Summary statistic visualisation of clustering was generated via the Rmarkdown notebook scripts. With the OTU tables, we are now able to compare the environmental sources plaque, gut, skin, sediment etc.
This thus can help indicate the level of hopefully endogenous oral-content preservation in the samples. Sourcetracker requires an OTU table generated above and a metadata file that tells the program what libraries in the OTU are a 'sink' or a 'source'. This metadata file used in this case is recorded here, scripts.
In particular here we needed to ensure there was an 'Env' and a 'SourceSink' column. For plotting of these - with comparison to the cumulative percent decay plots, I use the following R notebook to summarise the results: scripts. Discussion of the comparison can be seen in the main publication, however there was a generally good concordance between the two approaches. Figure R14 Stacked bar plots representing the estimated proportion of sample resembling a given source, as estimated by Sourcetracker across all calculus samples.
Visual inspection shows general concordance between the cumulative percent decay method and Sourcetracker estimation is seen. Coloured label text indicate whether that sample passed grey or failed black the cumulative percent decay threshold see above based on alignments to the NCBI nt database. Returning back to the MALT tables and cumulative percent decay plots, we had also observed that the older samples and those with weaker indication of oral content appeared to have a greater ratio of prokaryotic to eukartotic alignments.
We also explored whether this ratio could be used as an additional validation of oral microbiome preservation in ancient samples. Visualisation and statistical testing of these ratios can be seen in the figure below, and was generated as described in the R notebook scripts.
For discussion of the results, please refer to the main publication. Samples not passing the preservation threshold as estimated with the cumulative percent decay plots, tend to have smaller ratio and therefore greater amounts of eukaryotic DNA reads being assigned.
To rapidly screen for damage patterns indicative of ancient DNA on the observed core microbiome see below , we ran MaltExtract on all output of MALT, with the core microbiome as input list.
If you do not wish to clone this whole repository which is very large , you can use the following suggestions from stackoverflow. However, in case that link doesn't work - the most stable method is to use subversion svn. Note that Fretibacterium fastidiosum shows a higher edit distance and low percent identity score, suggesting the reads are likely derived from a relative of that taxon that does not have a genome represented in the database used NCBI nt To generate additional confirmation of damage patterns in oral taxa, the screening data was also mapped to a subset of observed core microbiome reference genomes see below , using EAGER.
DamageProfiler results were collated and visualised with the R script scripts. An example of the range of damage signals in ancient Human remains can be seen below in Figure R Again showing the presence of multiple well-preserved endogenous DNA of oral taxa.
Figure R17 Frequency of C to T miscorporations along 5' ends of DNA reads compared to references of four representative human oral-specific species as calculated by DamageProfiler. Neanderthal and Upper Palaeolithic individuals show damage patterns indicative of authentic aDNA, whereas a modern day individual does not.
The collated results for the whole screening dataset are stored in the file documentation. In addition to identifying well preserved samples, we can also remove possibly contaminating OTUs from our sample's OTU tables that are derived from the laboratory environment, we can use the R package decontam.
The idea here is to use this to reduce the number of noisy taxa in the downstream compositional analysis, e. The method in the decontam package uses library quantification information to trace inverse correlations in OTU abundance compared to DNA abundance - where laboratory derived taxa appear more abundant in controls versus true samples.
We manually added the library quantification values qPCR to our main metadata file scripts. We then ran decontam following the decontam tutorial vignette on CRAN as described here scripts. MetaPhlAn2 was run for functional analysis below. While MetaPhlAn2 was run as reference but wasn't utilised, the contaminants were not removed downstream due to unknown effects of removing these for HUMANn2.
We observed a high number of putative contaminant OTUs when using our strict decontam parameters. We wanted to see how much this would provisionally impact our downstream analyses by investigating how many actual reads the OTUs consist of a sample. The R notebook scripts. Rmd describes how we did this. We see that despite large numbers of contaminants are detected by decontam as a fraction of overall OTUs, this only makes up a minority fraction of actual alignments in the MALT OTU table in well preserved samples - suggesting that the majority of contaminants are derived from low-abundant taxa.
This is shown in figure R Figure R18 Fraction of MALT Alignments derived from putative contaminant OTUs show only small effect on well-preserved samples Individuals are ordered by percentage of alignments that are derived from OTUs considered putative contaminants by decontam and removed from downstream analysis. Colour indicates whether the individual was considered to be well-preserved or not based on the cumulative percentage decay curves with the within standard variation burn-in method.
After filtering to contain only well-preserved samples and removing possible contaminants, we then could begin comparison of the calculus microbiomes of our different host groups. We wanted to identify taxonomic similarities and differences between each of the groups to help reconstruct the evolutionary co- history of the microbiomes and their hosts. To explore if we have a structure in our data that can describe differences between each group we want to explore, we performed a Principal Coordinate Analysis to reduce the variation between the samples to human-readable dimensions.
An important aspect of this analysis was the use of Compositional Data CoDA principles - here implemented with PhILR - which allow us to apply 'traditional' statistics to taxonomic group comparisons. The steps for the generation of PCoA are described in the R notebook scripts. However, the notebook ending up having lots of options during parameter exploration see below. Therefore I also used knitr::purl to create a script version of the R notebook that accepts arguments via the command line.
For discussion of the results, refer to the main publication. Of particular note, given the sparse nature of our data, we compared between two zero-replacement methods. This was performed with the script scripts. Rmd , and we observed little difference Figure R Figure R19 Principal coordinate analysis comparing pseudocount and cumulative zero multiplication zero-replacement methods.
Reconstruction of Fig. Scatterplot displays euclidean distances based on genus-level PhILR ratios of all well preserved samples and sources without controls , putative laboratory contaminants removed, and low abundant taxa removed by a minimum support value of 0. Grey symbols represent comparative sources. Visual inspection shows low preservation samples typically fall in compositional ranges of laboratory control or comparative source. Low abundant taxa removed if under 0.
Figure R21 Principal Coordinate Analysis of well-preserved calculus microbiomes at prokaryotic genus taxonomic level by host genus. Visual inspection shows distinct centroids of each host genus, albeit with overlap with others.
This was run in the same R notebook as the PCoAs above scripts. Calculus microbiomes composition of Gorilla , Pan and Homo are distinct at all taxonomic and database combinations. Alouatta has been removed due to small sample size.
Putative laboratory contaminants and badly-preserved samples have been removed. Test statistic is 'pseudo-F'. Beta dispersion of samples from the centroid is likely heterogeneous between each host genus, as calculated by the permutest function in the R package vegan. Bootstrapping was performed on Gorilla , Pan and Homo groups only, with each run having sub-sampled each genus to 10 individuals to have equal sample size.
Overall we found that despite some overlap as seen in the PCoA analysis, the calculus microbiomes of each host genus could be considered statistically distinct. To visualise possible drivers of similarity and differences between the different host genera, we applied hierarchical clustering on the contaminant and preservation filtered MALT OTU tables, which are then displayed as heatmaps.
This is performed in the R notebook and script version scripts. The procedure again follows CoDa principles by performing CLR transformation of the OTU matrix rather than PhILR as so to retain information on the actual taxa classes that are driving differences , upon which unsupervised clustering of host taxa and microbial taxa is applied.
The clustering algorithm actually used is selected automatically within the script. Finally, a heatmap representation of the clustering is generated. Finally, an additional filter was included: a prevalence filter i. We modified the above parameters to find the combination that resulted in the most robust overall bootstrap support in the deepest nodes i. The sample clustering with no taxon filtering, additional min.
This was based on it having generally the highest bootstrap values in the internal nodes, and the phylogeny showing 'cleanest' clustering of individuals of the same host genus falling together. Interpretation of these heatmaps is described in the main publication. To aid interpretation, phenotypic data of the taxa displayed in the heatmap was performed via scripts.
R , and added manually to the heatmap plots using Inkscape, which was recorded in the file documentation. In general we observed Gorilla and Alouatta displayed more diversity of aerobic taxa, whereas Pan had lower diversity but consisted primarily of anaerobic and late colonising taxa. We also checked whether the hierarchical clustering results was affected by the zero replacement model, with the same script and otherwise the same settings.
Comparing the zero replacement methods showed no difference between clustering. There were only cosmetic tree topology changes with clade rotation, i. The output is saved as in the same directory at above. To confirm that the species corresponding to the grouping observed in the hierarchical clustering, we ran Indicator Analysis to find species that are 'indicative' of certain host genera combinations.
To revisit the question and results posed by Weyrich et al. This was performed in the notebook scripts. Rmd and corresponding script version. The results are saved in analysis. Figure R22 Principal coordinate analysis of different Homo calculus microbiomes, comparing different lifestyles and regions. Notify me of new comments via email.
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Once all metagenomic reads of a sample have been aligned against a reference database, the next task is to then determine the taxonomic and functional content of the microbiome samples. This poses a number of computational challenges. First, how to process the large number of items billions of reads and alignments so as to support their efficient analysis? Second, how to provide user-friendly tools that allow interactive inspection and analysis of the data?
Third, how to host and serve this data in a straightforward manner? This software performs taxonomic and functional analysis of reads. It also facilitates the interactive exploration and comparison of metagenomic samples. MEGAN uses a compressed, indexed file format called RMA to store reads, alignments, as well as taxonomic and functional classification information for a given sample. While such files can be produced interactively using MEGAN CE, we also provide a command line tool called blast2rma to compute such files on a server.
Alternatively, in case that DIAMOND is used to compute alignments, we also provide a command line tool called Meganizer that can be run on a diamond file so as to perform taxonomic and functional binning of the reads in the file.
The resulting information is appended to the file, together with additional indices required to efficiently access reads via taxonomic or functional classes. Meganized diamond files can be directly opened in MEGAN CE without any further processing and they are roughly the same size as the corresponding uncompressed fastq files. Previous versions of MEGAN [ 11 ] required that files are present on the computer on which the software is running. By integrating DIAMOND, MEGAN and MeganServer into a single, streamlined pipeline, we provide a straightforward and fast solution for microbiome analysis, facilitating the analysis of hundreds of samples and billions of reads on a single server in a matter of days.
Any given sample is represented by only two or at most three files, namely the initial compressed fastq file obtained from a sequencer and either a meganized diamond file, when using DIAMOND, or an alignment file followed by an RMA file, when using some other alignment tool.
In both cases, the resulting files contain all aligned reads, alignments and classification details. They can be stored on a server and made accessible through the MeganServer software, see Fig 1. Two of the main goals of computational analysis of metagenomic data is to determine the taxonomic content of each sample, i. This can be addressed by assigning sequencing reads to taxa and functional categories, based on their alignments to a reference database, in a process called binning.
One can easily execute principal coordinate analysis PCoA and cluster analysis using a number of different ecological indices and methods, and also compute standard alpha diversity indices.
The user can request to have all reads assigned to any given taxonomic or functional node assembled and output as contigs. This calculation is performed on-the-fly manuscript in preparation from within MEGAN, requiring no additional software or major calculations. To illustrate the speed and sensitivity of our pipeline, we report on the computational analysis of a set of 12 human gut metagenomic samples, consisting of million HiSeq reads [ 16 ].
From beginning-to-end, it took only 67 hours wall-clock on a single server, to align all reads against the NCBI-nr database downloaded February , approximately 64 million protein sequences and then to perform taxonomic and functional analysis, using InterPro2GO, SEED, eggNOG and KEGG, involving million reads and nearly ten billion alignments.
MEGAN CE and MeganServer provide easy access to the resulting files, allowing users to perform both high-level analyses using trees, charts or PCoA plots, or low-level analyses such as drilling down to individual organisms, genes, reads or alignments, on single or multiple samples. Services such as MG-RAST [ 21 ] and the EBI metagenomic web service [ 13 ] allow users to upload their data so as to use provided computational facilities for taxonomic and functional analysis of metagenomic sequencing data.
See [ 22 , 23 ] for two recent comparisons of the performance of different approaches. This release contains a large number of new features and has been substantially rewritten so as to support the analysis of many samples hundreds and many reads billions.
This release includes a number of command line tools, in particular blast2rma, daa2rma and Meganizer, which can all be used to prepare input files for MEGAN CE. MEGAN CE can import reads and alignments in a number of different file formats and computes a compressed and indexed binary file in so-called RMA format that contains all reads, alignments, taxonomic and functional classifications.
The file is indexed to allow quick access to reads and alignments by taxonomic or functional assignment. We provide a new program called Meganizer that analyses all reads present in a given diamond file, performs taxonomic and functional analysis of them, and then appends the resulting classifications and indices to the end of the diamond file. Meganizing a diamond file takes much less time than generating an RMA file and reduces the number of files that are created during metagenome analysis.
Indeed, using DIAMOND and Meganizer, each sample in a metagenome study is represented by only two files, namely the original compressed fastq file and the resulting meganized diamond file. This file is usually smaller than the corresponding RMA file. The rationale here is that reads that align to widely conserved genes should be assigned to high-level taxa such as the rank of Phylum , whereas reads that align to a gene that is specific to a given type of organisms should be assigned to a more lower taxon such as at the rank of Genus or Species.
As a consequence, reads are binned across all taxonomic ranks. The naive LCA algorithm provides a conceptually straight-forward and fast approach to taxonomic binning, running at a rate of over million reads and 2 billion alignments per hour on a single server, as discussed below. However, it is less suited for purposes of taxonomic profiling , where the goal is to obtain an accurate estimation of the taxonomic content of a sample, see [ 22 , 23 ].
One reason for the poorer performance of the naive LCA algorithm as a profiling tool is that it processes each read in isolation, independent of all other reads. The weighted LCA algorithm operates as follows. In a first phase, each reference sequence S is assigned a weight.
This is the number of reads R that only align to S or to other references as well, as long as they have the same species assignment as S.
This improves the specificity of taxonomic assignment, but requires more time to run.
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