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Practical Haplotype Graph  
June 4-8 2018

Workshop Outline  

With improved sequencing technology, sequencing costs are declining very rapidly. But bioinformatics challenges for processing data and inferring genotypes have increased. To address this, we have developed a general, graph-based, computational framework called the Practical Haplotype Graph (PHG), that can be used with a variety of skim sequencing methods to infer high-density genotypes directly from low-coverage sequence. The idea behind the PHG is that in a given breeding program, all parental genotypes can be sequenced at high coverage, and loaded as parental haplotypes in a relational database. Progeny can then be sequenced at low coverage and used to infer which parental haplotypes/genotypes from the database are most likely present in a given progeny.

Practical Haplotype Graph: The PHG is a trellis graph based representation of genic and intergenic regions (called reference ranges or reference intervals) which represent diversity across and between taxa. It can be used to: create custom genomes for alignment, call rare alleles, impute genotypes, and efficiently store genomic data from many lines. Skim sequences generated for a given taxon are aligned to consensus sequences in the PHG to identify the haplotype node at a given anchor. All the anchors for a given taxon are processed through a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) to identify the most likely path through the graph. Path information is used to identify the variants (SNPs). Low cost sequencing technologies, coupled with the PHG, facilitate the genotyping of large number of samples to increase the size of training populations for genomic selection models. This can in turn increase predictive accuracy and selection intensity in a breeding program.

 

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