Near-complete genome sequencing of swine vesicular disease virus using the Roche GS FLX sequencing platform

Sandra Cathrine Abel Nielsen, Christian Anders Wathne Bruhn, Jose Alfredo Samaniego Castruita, Jemma Wadsworth, Nick J. Knowles, M. Thomas P. Gilbert

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    Abstract

    Swine vesicular disease virus (SVDV) is an enterovirus that is both genetically and antigenically closely related to human coxsackievirus B5 within the Picornaviridae family. SVDV is the causative agent of a highly contagious (though rarely fatal) vesicular disease in pigs. We report a rapid method that is suitable for sequencing the complete protein-encoding sequences of SVDV isolates in which the RNA is relatively intact. The approach couples a single PCR amplification reaction, using only a single PCR primer set to amplify the near-complete SVDV genome, with deep-sequencing using a small fraction of the capacity of a Roche GS FLX sequencing platform. Sequences were initially verified through one of two criteria; either a match between a de novo assembly and a reference mapping, or a match between all of five different reference mappings performed against a fixed set of starting reference genomes with significant genetic distances within the same species of viruses. All reference mappings used an iterative method to avoid bias. Further verification was achieved through phylogenetic analysis against published SVDV genomes and additional Enterovirus B sequences. This approach allows high confidence in the obtained consensus sequences, as well as provides sufficiently high and evenly dispersed sequence coverage to allow future studies of intra-host variation.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article numbere97180
    JournalPLOS ONE
    Volume9
    Issue number5
    Number of pages7
    ISSN1932-6203
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2014

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