Optical map guided genome assembly.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:The long reads produced by third generation sequencing technologies have significantly boosted the results of genome assembly but still, genome-wide assemblies solely based on read data cannot be produced. Thus, for example, optical mapping data has been used to further improve genome assemblies but it has mostly been applied in a post-processing stage after contig assembly. RESULTS:We propose OPTICALKERMIT which directly integrates genome wide optical maps into contig assembly. We show how genome wide optical maps can be used to localize reads on the genome and then we adapt the Kermit method, which originally incorporated genetic linkage maps to the miniasm assembler, to use this information in contig assembly. Our experimental results show that incorporating genome wide optic

SUBMITTER: Leinonen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7336458 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature