Information Theory of DNA Shotgun Sequencing

DNA sequencing is the basic workhorse of modern day biology and medicine. Shotgun sequencing is the dominant technique used: many randomly located short fragments called reads are extracted from the DNA sequence, and these reads are assembled to reconstruct the original sequence. A basic question is...

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Main Authors: Motahari, Abolfazl S. (Author), Bresler, Guy (Contributor), Tse, David N. C. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017-07-19T18:40:47Z.
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