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

作者:Gnerre Sante*; Lander Eric S; Lindblad Toh Kerstin; Jaffe David B
来源:Genome Biology, 2009, 10(8): R88.
DOI:10.1186/gb-2009-10-8-r88

摘要

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.

  • 出版日期2009