Evaluating coverage bias in next-generation sequencing of Escherichia coli.

Whole-genome sequencing is essential to many facets of infectious disease research. However, technical limitations such as bias in coverage and tagmentation, and difficulties characterising genomic regions with extreme GC content have created significant obstacles in its use. Illumina has claimed th...

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Main Authors: Samantha Gunasekera, Sam Abraham, Marc Stegger, Stanley Pang, Penghao Wang, Shafi Sahibzada, Mark O'Dea
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0253440