Abstract
Over the last few years, pangenome analyses have been applied to eukaryotes, especially to important crops. A handful of eukaryotic pangenome studies have demonstrated widespread variation in gene presence/absence among plant species and its implications on agronomically important traits. In this chapter, we focus on the methodology of pangenome analysis, which can generally be classified into two different types of approaches, a homolog-based strategy and a “map-to-pan” strategy. In a homolog-based strategy, the genomes of individuals are independently assembled, and the presence/absence of a gene family is determined by clustering protein sequences into homologs. Alternatively, in a “map-to-pan” strategy, pangenome sequences are constructed by combining a well-annotated reference genome with newly identified non-reference representative sequences, from which the presence/absence of a gene is then determined based on read coverage after individual reads are mapped to the pangenome. We highlight the advantages and limitations of the homolog-based strategy and several variant approaches to the “map-to-pan” strategy. We conclude that the “map-to-pan” strategy is highly recommended for eukaryotic pangenome analysis. However, programs and parameters for pangenome analysis need to be carefully selected for eukaryotes with different genome sizes.
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In 2005, Tettelin et al. introduced the concept of a pangenome, namely the entire gene set of a species, in their study of eight strains of Streptococcus agalactiae, that causes neonatal infection in humans (Tettelin et al. 2005). The pangenome is comprised of a “core-genome” that contains genes shared by all individuals of the species, and a “dispensable genome” containing genes present in some but not all individuals of the species. The core-genome is generally believed to be responsible for functions essential to the species, such as growth and development, whereas the dispensable genome confers functions related to environmental adaptations (Vernikos et al. 2015). During the past 10 years, pangenome studies have been widely applied to bacteria and other microorganisms. However, only a handful of pangenome analyses of higher eukaryotes have been reported (Wang et al. 2018; Hu et al. 2018; Sun et al. 2017; Zhao et al. 2018; Ou et al. 2018; Darracq et al. 2018; Montenegro et al. 2017; Pinosio et al. 2016; Golicz et al. 2016; Nguyen et al. 2015; Lu et al. 2015; Yao et al. 2015; Hirsch et al. 2014; Read et al. 2013; Li et al. 2010, 2014). In this chapter, we will first review the biological insights highlighted from these studies. Then, we will introduce current challenges and strategies for performing eukaryotic pangenome analysis, and finally, we will discuss future directions in this field.
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have enabled whole-genome sequencing and comparisons of multiple individual genomes within a species. Single nucleotide variations (SNPs), small insertions and deletions (InDels), and structural variations (SVs), including copy number variations (CNVs) and presence/absence variations (PAVs), can be identified when comparing against a reference genome. A considerable number of SVs have been observed among human (Sudmant et al. 2015; Genomes Project et al. 2015; Feuk et al. 2006) and animal genomes (Bickhart and Liu 2014). For example, a typical human genome contains 2100–2500 structural variants (including ~1000 large deletions), affecting ~20 Mb sequences when comparing with a reference genome (~3 Gb) (Genomes Project et al. 2015). In contrast, SVs have been reported to be more pervasive within plant genomes (Saxena et al. 2014), such as rice (Wang et al. 2018; Hu et al. 2018), arabidopsis (Cao et al. 2011), maize (Swanson-Wagner et al. 2010), sorghum (Zheng et al. 2011), and potato (Potato Genome Sequencing C et al. 2011). For example, the total sequences affected by SV that differentiate two typical rice accessions, on average, are about 22–70 M (out of ~380 M) (Wang et al. 2018). These results imply that there might be widespread presence of gene PAVs associated with SV sequences.
Pangenome analyses aim to study gene PAVs, providing a new functional interpretation of within-species variations. Compared to SV studies, pangenome analyses identify undiscovered genomic sequences and their associated genes and reveal the species core and dispensable genome. Early pangenome studies focused on comparisons among a small number (2–3) of well-assembled individual genomes (Liu et al. 2007; Ma and Bennetzen 2004). These studies revealed the space of undiscovered genes and demonstrated widespread gene PAVs within a species. For instance, Li et al. assembled an Asian and an African genome, leading to the detection of 5 Mb sequences and hundreds of undiscovered genes that are absent in the human reference genome. Liu et al. sequenced ten thousand cDNAs of 93–11, a Xian(indica) rice accession, and found that >1000 genes were absent in the Geng(japonica) reference genome (Liu et al. 2007), which was believed to have diverged from Xian ~0.44 million years ago (Ma and Bennetzen 2004); later, Schatz et al. compared three assembled genomes of a Xian (IR64), a Geng, and an aus (DJ123) accession, and found that ~3000 genes were absent in at least one accession.
However, studying a small number of individuals cannot reveal the global landscape of gene PAVs of a species and cannot confidently identify the species core and dispensable genomes. Thus, systematic studies involving a large number of representative individuals within a species is highly desired. Large-scale plant pangenome studies involving tens to hundreds of individuals have emerged over recent years (Table 1). Many of these studies revealed that gene PAVs are a very important aspect of the genomic diversity within eukaryotic species/populations that can provide significant insights into evolutionary history of the species/populations with significant implications on the functional genomic research of important traits.
In Emiliania huxleyi, a marine phytoplankton important for carbon fixation in ecosystems, one-third of the genes in the reference genome are absent in the 13 sequenced individuals (Read et al. 2013). The core-genome controls inorganic nitrogen uptake/assimilation and nitrogen-rich compound acquisition/degradation, while the dispensable genome is in charge of metabolic repertoires, of which over one-fourth involve iron-binding activities and vitamin B1 and B12 synthesis (Read et al. 2013).
In rice, several studies consistently report that about ten thousand genes are missing in the widely used Nipponbare reference genome (Wang et al. 2018; Zhao et al. 2018; Yao et al. 2015), and almost all of them can be detected in wild rice (Wang et al. 2018). The dispensable genome accounts for >38% of the species pangenome and over one-fourth of a typical individual genome (Wang et al. 2018). On average, two Xian or Geng genomes differ by about 4000 (~10%) genes, respectively, whereas a Xian genome and a Geng genome differ by more than 6000 (~15%) genes (Wang et al. 2018). Although the dispensable genome is less studied, it appeared to harbor functions related to environmental adaptations, such as regulation of immune/defense responses and ethylene metabolism (Wang et al. 2018). Interestingly, the well-known Green Revolution gene, sd-1, coding a key enzyme, GA-oxidase20, in the biosynthesis of the important plant hormone, GA1/GA4, is a dispensable gene that associates with many important processes in plant growth, development, and responses to abiotic stresses (Wang et al. 2018; Zhao et al. 2018).
In Brassica oleracea (Golicz et al. 2016), bread wheat (Montenegro et al. 2017) and wild soybean (Li et al. 2014), it was reported that the dispensable genomes take up 18.7%, 20%, and 35.7% of the pangenomes, respectively. Although the pipelines and parameters/thresholds used to determine gene presence differed a lot in the above studies, it is well demonstrated that plants exhibit considerably large dispensable genomes, harboring functions related to many agronomically important traits. Moreover, several studies consistently demonstrate that dispensable genes tend to be younger (Wang et al. 2018; Chen et al. 2012; Bush et al. 2013), shorter (Wang et al. 2018; Bush et al. 2013; Schatz et al. 2014), have less exons (Wang et al. 2018; Bush et al. 2013; Schatz et al. 2014), harbor a much higher level of sequence variations (Wang et al. 2018; Li et al. 2014), and have fewer paralogs (Wang et al. 2018; Bush et al. 2013).
1 Eukaryotic Pangenome Analysis Strategy
Because pangenome is a property of a species/population, any desirable pangenome study should seriously consider its sampling strategy such that the maximum gene PAVs can be detected with a minimum number of samples. According to the core collection concept in plant genetic resources (Frankel and Brown 1984), a core collection of a plant species germplasm consisting of limited but well-sampled accessions of a plant species would represent the whole spectrum of its total within-species diversity. In practice, a well-established semi-stratified sampling strategy considering both the center(s) of diversity/origin and geographic distribution of a plant species has demonstrated that the core collection containing only 5% of the total collected accessions of a species would cover ~95% of the total species diversity (Jia et al. 2017). Obviously, this concept should equally be applicable to pangenome research of animal species.
For the analytic methodology, almost all bacterial pangenome analyses follow a homolog-based strategy (Fig. 1) involving (1) de novo assembly of individual genomes; (2) independent annotation of protein-coding genes in each assembled genome; and (3) pooling all protein sequences together and clustering them into homologs (gene families) or orthologs using protein clustering tools (Steinegger and Söding 2018; Fu et al. 2012) or ortholog grouping tools (Emms and Kelly 2015; Li et al. 2003). Gene family presence/absence in each individual can be retrieved from the clustering results. This strategy is highly dependent on the completeness of the whole-genome assembly. Failure in assembling a sequence segment will lead to calling the absence of all genes located on this sequence segment. Moreover, the protein similarity threshold for gene family determination may impact the size and even the relative size of the core-genome and pangenome.
Several challenges hinder applying a homolog-based strategy to eukaryotic genomes. First, eukaryotic genomes are usually large, ranging from hundred millions of bases to billions of bases, and possess a high level of repetitive sequences, making whole-genome assembly challenging. Several approaches can help improve the assembly, including increasing the sequencing depth, sequencing multiple libraries with diverse insertion sizes, and integrating long-read sequencing technologies (Rhoads and Au 2015; Schneider and Dekker 2012). However, all of these approaches significantly increase the cost of whole-genome assembly, thus limiting the number of individuals involved in a study. Second, eukaryotes have split gene structures. Automatic gene annotation may be inaccurate and lead to biased results. Even with these challenges, there are several studies following the homolog-based strategy. Li et al. sequenced seven wild soybean genomes using Illumina technology, each with three libraries (insertion sizes of 180 bp, 500 bp, and 2000 bp) (Li et al. 2014). The average overall sequencing depth was 112x. Based on this data, they were able to assemble ~89% of the genome. Recently, Zhao et al. sequenced 66 rice and wild rice accessions, each with two libraries (insertion sizes of 400 bp and 700 bp) (Zhao et al. 2018). The average sequencing depth reached 115x, and they were able to assemble ~85% of the genomes. Notably, a significant portion of individual genomes were not assembled in both studies. The associated genes were labeled as “absent” in the corresponding individuals. However, given that these false negatives repeatedly happen for certain genes within repeat-rich regions, they can be treated as systematic errors. The overall results may be still meaningful.
Reference-based genomic studies are prevalent in eukaryotes. Researchers have been taking tremendous efforts to build more complete reference genomes and providing confident gene annotations for important species. These reference genomes and their annotated genes are the basis for modern genomics studies. Moreover, reference-based genomic variants show a great power in explaining phenotypic variations when used as markers for genome-wide association analyses. Therefore, when introducing the pangenome concept to eukaryotic genomic analyses, taking advantage of a pre-existing well-annotated reference genome is a straightforward choice. Following this idea, the “map-to-pan” strategy became prevalent for eukaryotic pangenome studies, especially when the target genome is extremely large or the study involves a large number of individuals (Fig. 2). The “map-to-pan” strategy includes two main steps: construction of pangenome sequences by combining the reference genome and non-reference representative (NRR) sequences (upper panel of Fig. 2) and determination of the presence/absence of each gene in each individual by mapping reads to the pangenome and examining the gene coverage (lower pane of Fig. 2).
Several approaches for detecting NRR sequences have been reported (Wang et al. 2018; Ou et al. 2018; Montenegro et al. 2017; Yao et al. 2015; Read et al. 2013; Li et al. 2014). Yao et al. utilized a metagenome-like assembly of mixed unaligned reads from 1483 rice accessions with extremely low sequencing depth (1~3x) (Yao et al. 2015) (Option 1 in Fig. 2), enabling the detection of ~9000 non-reference genes. This approach assembled NRR sequences using heterozygous reads and may generate chimeric contigs, especially when considering that non-reference sequences may exhibit higher levels of repetitive sequences. A variant of this option (Option 2 in Fig. 2) is to assemble the unaligned reads from each individual separately and retrieve NRR sequences using DNA homology clustering strategies, such as CD-HIT-EST (Fu et al. 2012), UCLUST (Edgar 2010), MeShClust (James et al. 2018), etc. Golicz et al. utilized an iterative assembly approach (Option 3 in Fig. 2), iteratively conducting the following three steps: mapping of the reads to a pseudo pangenome (starting with the reference genome); assembling the unmapped reads; and updating a new pseudo pangenome with new sequences added (Golicz et al. 2016). They demonstrated that the sizes of final assemblies were similar regardless of the order of individuals added into the iterative process. However, an improper ordering may lead to fragmented assemblies. Alternatively, Hu et al. proposed an integrated approach (implemented in EUPAN toolkit (Hu et al. 2017)) (Option 4 in Fig. 2): (1) independent assembly of individual genomes; (2) generation of NRR sequences from homology clustering of all unaligned contigs. This approach has the benefit of not involving chimeric sequences as well as keeping better sequence completeness. This approach has also been recently applied to hundreds of rice genomes (Wang et al. 2018; Hu et al. 2018; Sun et al. 2017) and the 383 Capsicum genomes (Ou et al. 2018). This strategy will perform better than Option 2 in the scenario where a novel sequence contains a short reference segment (likely to be repetitive sequences) in the middle; option 2 will assemble two segmented segments instead. However, the process of whole-genome assembly is computationally intensive, hindering its application to extremely large genomes. In summary, pooling of low-depth sequenced genomes may also contribute to pangenome construction (Option 1). Options 2–4 are preferable if sequencing depth is high enough for independent assemblies. Options 2–3 are extremely useful for eukaryotes with very large genomes (e.g., the bread wheat with a haploid genome of >13Gb).
After the construction of pangenome sequences, gene presence/absence can be determined by examining gene coverage when raw reads are mapped to the pangenome (lower panel of Fig. 2). Remarkably, very different thresholds have been applied to determine a gene’s presence. For example, Wang et al. considered a gene’s presence as CDS coverage (≥1 read) over 0.95 and gene body coverage over 0.85 (Wang et al. 2018); Ou et al. treated a gene’s presence as CDS coverage (≥1 read) over 0.6 and gene body coverage over 0.5 (Ou et al. 2018); Read et al. considered a gene’s presence as gene body coverage (≥1 read) over 0.5 (Read et al. 2013; Montenegro et al. 2017; Golicz et al. 2016) used a threshold of exon coverage over 0.05. Unfortunately, such divergent thresholds make the quantitative cross-species comparisons of gene PAV-related features meaningless. Theoretically, with a high-enough sequencing depth, a gene’s presence is equal to that the gene, at least the CDS, should be fully covered. Loss of partial sequences of a gene, defined as a “functional unit,” may cause a loss of gene function. Setting up gene body coverage cutoffs will help distinguish retro-transcribed pseudo-genes from their original ancestries. In reality, certain genomic regions may be not covered due to both insufficient sequencing depth and unevenness of the sequencing. One plausible solution is to lower the thresholds. However, the sequencing depth difference may further lead to inconsistencies in sensitivities of gene presence determination among individuals; individuals with higher sequencing depth would contain more genes. Another possible solution is to study the presence/absence of gene families instead of genes by calculating “gene presence” using a low threshold and determining gene family presence based on “gene presence.” In this scenario, the unbalanced sequencing depths also need to be fixed either by sampling to equal depths or setting up dynamic thresholds based on the sequencing depth. Nevertheless, it is not recommended to determine gene presence/absence from low-depth sequencing data. Gene presence/absence should only be studied and compared for individuals with sufficient sequencing data, that is, when mapping to the pangenome, the coverage of the genome should be saturated. For example, Wang et al. mapped raw reads of ~3000 rice accessions to the reference genome and found that genome coverage is stable when sequencing depth exceeds 20x; therefore, gene presence/absence was only studied for a selected set of 453 accessions with sequencing depth >20 (Wang et al. 2018).
The “map-to-pan” strategy also exhibits better accuracy. A pangenome study can be technically evaluated at two levels: (1) the accuracy of pangenome (gene annotation and gene completeness) and (2) the accuracy of gene presence/absence calling. The “map-to-pan” strategy utilizes reference sequences and their annotations directly. Strategies using a whole-genome assembly (homolog-based, and option 4 of the “map-to-pan” strategy) will have a higher possibility of detecting complete gene sequences. At the gene presence/absence level, the homolog-based strategy has a bottleneck in assembling a complete genome, and “map-to-pan” strategies definitely show better accuracy when sequencing depth is high enough (Hu et al. 2017).
After determination of gene presence/absence, similar analyses as seen in bacterial pangenome studies can be performed for eukaryotes, including but not limited to (1) simulating the pangenome and core-genome sizes; (2) constructing phylogenic relationships based on gene presence/absence; and (3) exploring functions related to the dispensable genome or to a specific dispensable gene.
2 Future Directions
In summary, the pangenome is an important property of any eukaryotic species/populations and gene PAVs represent a very important dimension of within-species/population diversity that remains uncharacterized in most eukaryotic species. As the costs in genome sequencing decrease, one would expect the pangenome analyses to be carried out in more and more species, firstly in most important and/or model plant and animal species, and then to natural populations of wild species. Thus, eukaryotic pangenome research in the next several years should focus on revealing within-species/population gene PAVs and building the pan-references for species of interest. The pan-reference of a species should include the reference illustrating (1) all the sequences within the species, (2) the connections of alternative sequence segments and (3) the genotype likelihoods (allele frequencies) such that all possible mechanisms (SVs and distribution/activities of transposable elements) potentially responsible for pangenome expansion and generation of gene PAVs can be clearly represented and understood. As pangenomes and gene PAVs are revealed in more and more plant and animal species, the eukaryotic pangenome research will be naturally extended to the comparative pangenome analyses, focusing on comparisons of the pangenome constitution between or among related species. Results from this kind of research are expected to provide new insights into the evolutionary history of eukaryotic species. For example, comparisons between related species or between different populations of the same species in portions of the core and dispensable genes/gene families in their pangenomes and their patterns how new gene emerged will provide important information on their evolutionary history. Expectedly, emergences of new species would be accompanied with bursts of new gene emergences, while major distinctions with massive gene losses in evolution. Also, it would be of great interest to compare the core-genome constitution between related species and to compare the dispensable genome constitution between different populations of the same species. In the former cases, one may see the differences in key genes and their functionalities between related species. In the latter cases, one may discover important sets of genes contributing to adaptations to specific environments important for future plant and animal improvements. In this respect, genome-wide association analyses of important traits based on pangenome SNPs or based on gene PAVs should be widely adopted (Hu et al. 2018).
As more eukaryotic pangenome analyses are expected to emerge, the technical strategy and methodology in analyses of eukaryotic pangenomes need to be improved. Because of the relatively high genome sequencing and analytic costs in eukaryotic pangenomes, the NGS technology will remain the primary technology for the pangenome studies of most eukaryotes in the short term, particularly for those species of very large genomes, and so for the “map-to-pan” strategy elaborated in detail here. However, before applying this strategy, specific attentions should be paid to the sampling strategy to make sure representative individuals of minimum sample size of the target species or population to be used, and to the selection and evaluation of parameters of the map-to-pan methodology. In the presentation and storage of results from the eukaryotic pangenome analyses, graph-based data structures are highly desirable and should be widely used in pan-reference storage and visualization (Zekic et al. 2018; Marschall et al. 2018; Baier et al. 2016). Pioneer work has been done in the human genome research, where the NRR sequences might be of a small size. Alternative sequences of highly variable regions were added to human reference genome, starting with GRCh37 (Church et al. 2011). Alternative sequences were anchored to locations along the primary assembly. Besides the limited NRR sequences, a large number of SNPs, InDels, and SVs (deletions, duplications, and translocations) can also be integrated into the pan-reference (Zekic et al. 2018; Marschall et al. 2018; Baier et al. 2016). What is more, read alignment tools and variant-calling tools working on the graph-based pan-reference will be required. However, for plant species of high within-species sequence diversity, the challenge is how to anchor large numbers of NRR sequences, whose sizes may be as large as half of the reference genome. Finally, considering the prediction of “new” or novel genes based on simple thresholds of sequence homology without detailed information on gene functionality is always somewhat arbitrary, the pangenome results based on the NGS technology can be validated and improved greatly if high-quality reference genomes of relatively few representative individuals are included in a pangenome study, particularly for important model species of relatively small genome sizes.
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Hu, Z., Wei, C., Li, Z. (2020). Computational Strategies for Eukaryotic Pangenome Analyses. In: Tettelin, H., Medini, D. (eds) The Pangenome. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38281-0_13
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