Xiao Li, José F Muñoz, Lalitha Gade, Silvia Argimon, Marie-Elisabeth Bougnoux, Jolene R Bowers, Nancy A Chow, Isabel Cuesta, Rhys A Farrer, Corinne Maufrais, Juan Monroy-Nieto, Dibyabhaba Pradhan, Jessie Uehling, Duong Vu, Corin A Yeats, David M Aanensen, Christophe d'Enfert, David M Engelthaler, David W Eyre, Matthew C Fisher, Ferry Hagen, Wieland Meyer, Gagandeep Singh, Ana Alastruey-Izquierdo, Anastasia P Litvintseva, Christina A Cuomo
Genomic analyses are widely applied to epidemiological, population genetic and experimental studies of pathogenic fungi. A wide range of methods are employed to carry out these analyses, typically without including controls that gauge the accuracy of variant prediction. The importance of tracking outbreaks at a global scale has raised the urgency of establishing high-accuracy pipelines that generate consistent results between research groups. To evaluate currently employed methods for whole-genome variant detection and elaborate best practices for fungal pathogens, we compared how 14 independent variant calling pipelines performed across 35 Candida auris isolates from 4 distinct clades and evaluated the performance of variant calling, single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) counts and phylogenetic inference results...
April 2023: Microbial Genomics