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Hybrid De Novo Genome Assembly for the Generation of Complete Genomes of Urinary Bacteria using Short- and Long-read Sequencing Technologies
Published on: August 20, 2021
Tandem repeats in complete bacterial genome sequences: sequence and structural analyses for comparative studies
1Unité de physico-chimie des macromolécules biologiques, (URA 1773 du CNRS), Institut Pasteur, Paris, France. yeramian@pasteur.fr
Abstract:
A series of complete bacterial genome sequences have recently become available and powerful methods have been developed for the identification of tandem repeats on a very large scale. It is thus possible to derive extensive comparative descriptions of such repeats at the level of complete genomes, as illustrated here for three different bacterial genomes: Escherichia coli, Haemophilus influenzae, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Such sequence analyses can be usefully complemented by structural characterisations of the repeats.
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