Improving ancient DNA genome assembly
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Improving ancient DNA genome assembly
Most reconstruction methods for genomes of ancient origin that are used today require a closely related reference. In order to identify genomic rearrangements or the deletion of whole genes, de novo assembly has to be used. However, because of inherent problems with ancient DNA, its de novo assembly is highly complicated. In order to tackle the diversity in the length of the input reads, we pro...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: PeerJ
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2167-8359
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3126