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Pebble and rock band: heuristic resolution of repeats and scaffolding in the velvet short-read de novo assembler.
Zerbino, Daniel R; McEwen, Gayle K; Margulies, Elliott H; Birney, Ewan.
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  • Zerbino DR; European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK. zerbino@ebi.ac.uk
PLoS One ; 4(12): e8407, 2009 Dec 22.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20027311
BACKGROUND: Despite the short length of their reads, micro-read sequencing technologies have shown their usefulness for de novo sequencing. However, especially in eukaryotic genomes, complex repeat patterns are an obstacle to large assemblies. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We present a novel heuristic algorithm, Pebble, which uses paired-end read information to resolve repeats and scaffold contigs to produce large-scale assemblies. In simulations, we can achieve weighted median scaffold lengths (N50) of above 1 Mbp in Bacteria and above 100 kbp in more complex organisms. Using real datasets we obtained a 96 kbp N50 in Pseudomonas syringae and a unique 147 kbp scaffold of a ferret BAC clone. We also present an efficient algorithm called Rock Band for the resolution of repeats in the case of mixed length assemblies, where different sequencing platforms are combined to obtain a cost-effective assembly. CONCLUSIONS: These algorithms extend the utility of short read only assemblies into large complex genomes. They have been implemented and made available within the open-source Velvet short-read de novo assembler.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Tipo de estudo: Prognostic_studies Limite: Animals Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2009 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Tipo de estudo: Prognostic_studies Limite: Animals Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2009 Tipo de documento: Article