Researchers Develop Method to Assess Genome Assemblies Without a Reference and with Fewer Metrics

Mar 08, 2013

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Researchers from the St. Petersburg Academic University of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the University of California, San Diego, have developed a method to assess the quality of genome assemblies that they claim improves on existing approaches such as those used for the Assemblathon and the Genome Assembly Gold-Standard Evaluation challenges.

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