Norgal: extraction and de novo assembly of mitochondrial DNA from whole-genome sequencing data

Abstract Background Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) projects provide short read nucleotide sequences from nuclear and possibly organelle DNA depending on the source of origin. Mitochondrial DNA is present in animals and fungi, while plants contain DNA from both mitochondria and chloroplasts. Current t...

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Main Authors: Kosai Al-Nakeeb, Thomas Nordahl Petersen, Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-11-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-017-1927-y