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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
Graphical contig analyzer for all sequencing platforms (G4ALL): a new stand-alone tool for finishing and draft
Rommel Thiago Jucá Ramos1, Adriana R Carneiro, Pablo H Caracciolo
1Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, PA, Brazil.
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Genome assembly has always been complicated due to the inherent difficulties of sequencing technologies, as well the computational methods used to process sequences. Although many of the problems for the generation of contigs from reads are well known, especially those involving short reads, the orientation and ordination of contigs in the finishing stages is still very challenging and time consuming, as it requires the manual curation of the contigs to guarantee correct identification them and prevent misassembly. Due to the large numbers of sequences that are produced, especially from the reads produced by next generation sequencers, this process demands considerable manual effort, and there are few software options available to facilitate the process. To address this problem, we have developed the Graphic Contig Analyzer for All Sequencing Platforms (G4ALL): a stand-alone multi-user tool that facilitates the editing of the contigs produced in the assembly process. Besides providing information on the gene products contained in each contig, obtained through a search of the available biological databases, G4ALL produces a scaffold of the genome, based on the overlap of the contigs after curation.
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THE SOFTWARE IS AVAILABLE AT: http://www.genoma.ufpa.br/rramos/softwares/g4all.xhtml.
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