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Assisted assembly: how to improve a de novo genome assembly by using related species (2009)

Abstract
We describe a new assembly algorithm, where a genome assembly with low sequence coverage, either throughout the genome or locally, due to cloning bias, is considerably improved through an assisting process via a related genome. We show that the information provided by aligning the whole-genome shotgun reads of the target against a reference genome can be used to substantially improve the quality of the resulting assembly.

Publication details
Download http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49466
Publisher BioMed Central Ltd.
Contributors Department of Biology, Lander, Eric S., Lander, Eric S.
Repository MIT Dspace (United States)
Type Article, http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle
Language English
Relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/gb-2009-10-8-r88
Genome Biology