Novel methods for comparing and evaluating single and metagenomic assemblies

• Main Author: Hill, Christopher Michael
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland 2015
• Subjects: Bioinformatics; FOS Computer and information sciences; Computer science; Assembly; Genome; Arctic; Valet
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.13016/m28k9d; http://hdl.handle.net/1903/17100

The current revolution in genomics has been made possible by software tools called genome assemblers, which stitch together DNA fragments “read” by sequencing machines into complete or nearly complete genome sequences. Despite decades of research in this field and the development of dozens of genome...