PlasClass improves plasmid sequence classification.

Many bacteria contain plasmids, but separating between contigs that originate on the plasmid and those that are part of the bacterial genome can be difficult. This is especially true in metagenomic assembly, which yields many contigs of unknown origin. Existing tools for classifying sequences of pla...

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Main Authors: David Pellow, Itzik Mizrahi, Ron Shamir
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-04-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007781