Scaffolding and completing genome assemblies in real-time with nanopore sequencing

Assembling genomes using currently available computational methods can be time consuming. Here, Coin and colleagues describe a bioinformatics tool named npScarf that can scaffold and complete an existing short read assembly in real-time using nanopore sequencing.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Minh Duc Cao, Son Hoang Nguyen, Devika Ganesamoorthy, Alysha G. Elliott, Matthew A. Cooper, Lachlan J. M. Coin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14515