Scaffolding and completing genome assemblies in real-time with nanopore sequencing

Assembling genomes using currently available computational methods can be time consuming. Here, Coin and colleagues describe a bioinformatics tool named npScarf that can scaffold and complete an existing short read assembly in real-time using nanopore sequencing.

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Main Authors: Minh Duc Cao, Son Hoang Nguyen, Devika Ganesamoorthy, Alysha G. Elliott, Matthew A. Cooper, Lachlan J. M. Coin
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/6ae502fb25914ebfb2682688ad60502a
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