Alignathon: A competitive assessment of whole genome alignment methods.
Dent Earl, Ngan K Nguyen, Glenn Hickey, Robert S. Harris, Stephen Fitzgerald, Kathryn Beal, Igor Seledtsov, Vladimir Molodtsov, Brian Raney, Hiram Clawson, Jaebum Kim, Carsten Kemena, Jia-Ming Chang, Ionas Erb, Alexander Poliakov, , Benedict Paten
The paper organizes a competitive evaluation of whole genome alignment methods using simulated and real datasets, finding significant accuracy differences between tools and performance variations across evolutionary distances.
Genome Research · Oct 1, 2014Peer-reviewedBioinformatics