Whole-Genome Shotgun Optical Mapping of Rhodobacter sphaeroides strain 2.4.1 and Its Use for Whole-Genome Shotgun Sequence Assembly
- Shiguo Zhou1,4,
- Erika Kvikstad1,4,
- Andrew Kile1,4,
- Jessica Severin1,4,
- Dan Forrest1,4,
- Rod Runnheim1,4,
- Chris Churas1,4,
- Jason W. Hickman3,
- Chris Mackenzie3,
- Madhusudan Choudhary3,
- Timothy Donohue2,
- Samuel Kaplan3, and
- David C. Schwartz1,4,5
- 1 Laboratory for Molecular and Computational Genomics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, UW Biotechnology Center, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
- 2 Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
- 3 Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas–Houston Medical School, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
- 4 Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
Abstract
Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1 is a facultative photoheterotrophic bacterium with tremendous metabolic diversity, which has significantly contributed to our understanding of the molecular genetics of photosynthesis, photoheterotrophy, nitrogen fixation, hydrogen metabolism, carbon dioxide fixation, taxis, and tetrapyrrole biosynthesis. To further understand this remarkable bacterium, and to accelerate an ongoing sequencing project, two whole-genome restriction maps (EcoRI and HindIII) of R. sphaeroides strain 2.4.1 were constructed using shotgun optical mapping. The approach directly mapped genomic DNA by the random mapping of single molecules. The two maps were used to facilitate sequence assembly by providing an optical scaffold for high-resolution alignment and verification of sequence contigs. Our results show that such maps facilitated the closure of sequence gaps by the early detection of nascent sequence contigs during the course of the whole-genome shotgun sequencing process.
Footnotes
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Article and publication are at http://www.genome.org/cgi/doi/10.1101/gr.1128803.
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↵5 Corresponding author. E-MAIL dcschwartz{at}facstaff.wisc.edu; FAX (608) 265-6743.
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- Accepted June 30, 2003.
- Received December 23, 2002.
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press