A systematic comparison of chloroplast genome assembly tools.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Chloroplasts are intracellular organelles that enable plants to conduct photosynthesis. They arose through the symbiotic integration of a prokaryotic cell into an eukaryotic host cell and still contain their own genomes with distinct genomic information. Plastid genomes accommodate essential genes and are regularly utilized in biotechnology or phylogenetics. Different assemblers that are able to assess the plastid genome have been developed. These assemblers often use data of whole genome sequencing experiments, which usually contain reads from the complete chloroplast genome.

Results

The performance of different assembly tools has never been systematically compared. Here, we present a benchmark of seven chloroplast assembly tools, capable of succeeding in more th

SUBMITTER: Freudenthal JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7520963 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature