Novel methods for comparing and evaluating single and metagenomic assemblies

• Main Author: Hill, Christopher Michael
• Other Authors: Pop, Mihai, Digital Repository at the University of Maryland, University of Maryland (College Park, Md.), Computer Science
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Bioinformatics; Computer science; Assembly; Genome; Arctic; Valet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/17100; https://doi.org/10.13016/M28K9D

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...