MisFinder: identify mis-assemblies in an unbiased manner using reference and paired-end reads.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Because of the short read length of high throughput sequencing data, assembly errors are introduced in genome assembly, which may have adverse impact to the downstream data analysis. Several tools have been developed to eliminate these errors by either 1) comparing the assembled sequences with some similar reference genome, or 2) analyzing paired-end reads aligned to the assembled sequences and determining inconsistent features alone mis-assembled sequences. However, the former approach cannot distinguish real structural variations between the target genome and the reference genome while the latter approach could have many false positive detections (correctly assembled sequence being considered as mis-assembled sequence).

Results

We present misFinder, a tool that

SUBMITTER: Zhu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4647709 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature