Genome Assembly

I successfuly made the genome assembly of three Mediterranean fish draft genomes. Their genome sequence have been published recently in this paper. Here, I share the lessons I learned from assembling a genome using both long and short sequencing reads.

References

New genomic ressources for three exploited Mediterranean fishes

Katharina Fietz(1), Elena Trofimenko(1), Pierre-Edouard Guerin(1), Veronique Arnal, Montserrat Torres-Oliva, Stephane Lobreaux,Angel Perez-Ruzafa, Stephanie Manel, Oscar Puebla

Genomics, 2020 July 03. DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2020.06.041

Platanus-allee is a de novo haplotype assembler enabling a comprehensive access to divergent heterozygous regions

Rei Kajitani, Dai Yoshimura, Miki Okuno, Yohei Minakuchi, Hiroshi Kagoshima, Asao Fujiyama, Kaoru Kubokawa, Yuji Kohara, Atsushi Toyoda, Takehiko Itoh

Nature Communications, February 2019. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09575-2

Published on July 3, 2020

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Pierre-Edouard Guerin

Bioinformatician

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