Fast and accurate long-read assembly with wtdbg2.

Nat Methods
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Abstract

Existing long-read assemblers require thousands of central processing unit hours to assemble a human genome and are being outpaced by sequencing technologies in terms of both throughput and cost. We developed a long-read assembler wtdbg2 () that is 2-17 times as fast as published tools while achieving comparable contiguity and accuracy. It paves the way for population-scale long-read assembly in future.

Year of Publication
2020
Journal
Nat Methods
Volume
17
Issue
2
Pages
155-158
Date Published
2020 02
ISSN
1548-7105
DOI
10.1038/s41592-019-0669-3
PubMed ID
31819265
PubMed Central ID
PMC7004874
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R01 HG010040 / HG / NHGRI NIH HHS / United States