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Gaëtan Benoit

Institut Pasteur

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Assay:long-read sequencing· 3 Assay:metagenomics· 3 Approach:statistical model· 3 Research Focus:genome assembly· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:clustering· 1 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Approach:deep learning· 1

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High-quality metagenome assembly from nanopore reads with nanoMDBG

Gaëtan Benoit, Robert S James, Sébastien Raguideau, Georgina Alabone, Tim Goodall, Rayan Chikhi, Christopher Quince

nanoMDBG improves metagenome assembly from ONT reads, producing more high-quality MAGs with less computational resources than existing assemblers.

Nature Communications · Mar 6, 2026Peer-reviewedBioinformatics

Highly accurate metagenome-assembled genomes from human gut microbiota using long-read assembly, binning, and consolidation methods

Daniel M. Portik, Xiaowen Feng, Gaëtan Benoit, Daniel J. Nasko, Benjamin Auch, Samuel Bryson, Raúl J. Cano, Martha R. Carlin, Anabelle Damerum, Brett Farthing, Jonas Grove, Moutusee Islam, Kyle W. Langford, Ivan Liachko, Kristopher M. Locken, , Jeremy E. Wilkinson

This study improves metagenome-assembled genomes from human gut microbiota using long-read sequencing and novel assembly methods, yielding more high-quality MAGs and uncovering uncultured diversity.

bioRxiv · May 10, 2024 · PreprintMicrobiology

Efficient High-Quality Metagenome Assembly from Long Accurate Reads using Minimizer-space de Bruijn Graphs

Gaëtan Benoit, Sébastien Raguideau, Robert S James, Adam M. Phillippy, Rayan Chikhi, Christopher Quince

The paper introduces a metagenomics assembler that improves efficiency and assembly quality for long reads, achieving faster performance and better recovery of MAGs and viral/plasmid sequences.

bioRxiv · Jul 7, 2023 · PreprintBioinformatics