A complete bacterial genome assembled de novo using only nanopore sequencing data
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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
Nicholas J Loman1, Joshua Quick1, Jared T Simpson2
1Institute of Microbiology and Infection, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Abstract:
We have assembled de novo the Escherichia coli K-12 MG1655 chromosome in a single 4.6-Mb contig using only nanopore data. Our method has three stages: (i) overlaps are detected between reads and then corrected by a multiple-alignment process; (ii) corrected reads are assembled using the Celera Assembler; and (iii) the assembly is polished using a probabilistic model of the signal-level data. The assembly reconstructs gene order and has 99.5% nucleotide identity.
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