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Wengan

Description

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Wengan is a new genome assembler that, unlike most of the current long-reads assemblers, avoids entirely the all-vs-all read comparison. The key idea behind Wengan is that long-read alignments can be inferred by building paths on a sequence graph. To achieve this, Wengan builds a new sequence graph called the Synthetic Scaffolding Graph (SSG). The SSG is built from a spectrum of synthetic mate-pair libraries extracted from raw long-reads. Longer alignments are then built by performing a transitive reduction of the edges. Another distinct feature of Wengan is that it performs self-validation by following the read information. Wengan identifies miss-assemblies at different steps of the assembly process. For more information about the algorithmic ideas behind Wengan, please read the preprint available in bioRxiv.

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Categories

biology, genomics