Open AccessA de novo metagenomic assembly program for shotgun DNA reads
Author(s) -
Binbin Lai,
Ruogu Ding,
Yang Li,
Liping Duan,
Huaiqiu Zhu
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - Portuguese
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts162
Subject(s) - metagenomics , shotgun sequencing , shotgun , sequence assembly , sanger sequencing , computational biology , computer science , dna sequencing , data mining , biology , dna , genetics , gene , gene expression , transcriptome
A high-quality assembly of reads generated from shotgun sequencing is a substantial step in metagenome projects. Although traditional assemblers have been employed in initial analysis of metagenomes, they cannot surmount the challenges created by the features of metagenomic data.
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