Assembly complexity of prokaryotic genomes using short reads

TitleAssembly complexity of prokaryotic genomes using short reads
Publication TypeJournal Articles
Year of Publication2010
AuthorsKingsford C, Schatz MC, Pop M
JournalBMC Bioinformatics
Volume11
Issue1
Pagination21 - 21
Date Published2010/01/12/
ISBN Number1471-2105
Abstract

De Bruijn graphs are a theoretical framework underlying several modern genome assembly programs, especially those that deal with very short reads. We describe an application of de Bruijn graphs to analyze the global repeat structure of prokaryotic genomes.

URLhttp://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/11/21
DOI10.1186/1471-2105-11-21