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Meta‐Fish‐Lib : a generalised, dynamic DNA reference library pipeline for metabarcoding of fishes

Collins, RA; Trauzzi, G; Maltby, KM; Gibson, TI; Ratcliffe, FC; Hallam, J; Rainbird, S; Maclaine, J; Henderson, PA; Sims, DW; Mariani, S; Genner, MJ

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Authors

RA Collins

G Trauzzi

KM Maltby

TI Gibson

FC Ratcliffe

J Hallam

S Rainbird

J Maclaine

PA Henderson

DW Sims

S Mariani

MJ Genner



Abstract

The accuracy and reliability of DNA metabarcoding analyses depend on the breadth and quality of the reference libraries that underpin them. However, there are limited options available to obtain and curate the huge volumes of sequence data that are available on public repositories such as NCBI and BOLD. Here, we provide a pipeline to download, clean, and annotate mitochondrial DNA sequence data for a given list of fish species. Features of this pipeline includes: (i) support for multiple metabarcode markers; (ii) searches on species synonyms and taxonomic name validation; (iii) phylogeny assisted quality control for identification and removal of misannotated sequences; (iv) automatically generated coverage reports for each new GenBank release update; and (v) citable, versioned DOIs. As an example we provide a ready-to-use curated reference library for the marine and freshwater fishes of the United Kingdom. To augment this reference library for environmental DNA metabarcoding specifically, we generated 241 new MiFish-12S sequences for 88 UK marine species, and make available new primer sets useful for sequencing these. This brings the coverage of common UK species for the MiFish-12S fragment to 93%, opening new avenues for scaling up fish metabarcoding across wide spatial gradients. The Meta-Fish-Lib reference library and pipeline is hosted at https://github.com/genner-lab/meta-fish-lib.

Citation

Collins, R., Trauzzi, G., Maltby, K., Gibson, T., Ratcliffe, F., Hallam, J., …Genner, M. (2021). Meta‐Fish‐Lib : a generalised, dynamic DNA reference library pipeline for metabarcoding of fishes. Journal of Fish Biology, 99(4), 1446-1454. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.14852

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jul 12, 2021
Online Publication Date Jul 16, 2021
Publication Date Oct 8, 2021
Deposit Date Jul 26, 2021
Publicly Available Date Jul 16, 2022
Journal Journal of Fish Biology
Print ISSN 0022-1112
Electronic ISSN 1095-8649
Publisher Wiley
Volume 99
Issue 4
Pages 1446-1454
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.14852
Publisher URL https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.14852
Related Public URLs http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1095-8649
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Access Information : This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Collins, R.A., Trauzzi, G., Maltby, K.M., Gibson, T.I., Ratcliffe, F.C., Hallam, J., Rainbird, S., Maclaine, J., Henderson, P.A., Sims, D.W., Mariani, S. and Genner, M.J. (2021), Meta-Fish-Lib: A generalised, dynamic DNA reference library pipeline for metabarcoding of fishes. J Fish Biol., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.14852. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.

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