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Metassembler: Merging and optimizing de novo genome assemblies
Alejandro Hernandez Wences, Michael Schatz
The paper introduces a metassembler algorithm that improves genome assembly quality by merging multiple assemblies and applies it to four genomes, showing consistent improvements in contiguity and quality.
DOI 10.1186/s13059-015-0764-4