De novo yeast genome assemblies from MinION, PacBio and MiSeq platforms

Abstract Long-read sequencing technologies such as Pacific Biosciences and Oxford Nanopore MinION are capable of producing long sequencing reads with average fragment lengths of over 10,000 base-pairs and maximum lengths reaching 100,000 base- pairs. Compared with short reads, the assemblies obtaine...

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Main Authors: Francesca Giordano, Louise Aigrain, Michael A Quail, Paul Coupland, James K Bonfield, Robert M Davies, German Tischler, David K Jackson, Thomas M Keane, Jing Li, Jia-Xing Yue, Gianni Liti, Richard Durbin, Zemin Ning
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-06-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-03996-z