Pilon: An integrated tool for comprehensive microbial variant detection and genome assembly improvement

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Walker, Bruce J ^a,c   Abeel, Thomas ^a,b   Shea, Terrance ^a   Priest, Margaret ^a   Abouelliel, Amr ^a   Sakthikumar, Sharadha ^a   Cuomo, Christina A ^a   Zeng, Qiandong ^a   Wortman, Jennifer ^a   Young, Sarah K ^a   Earl, Ashlee M ^a  

^a BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c Applied Minds LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DIPLOIDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; EVALUATION RESEARCH; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; HAPLOIDY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROBIAL GENOME; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PROCESS CONTROL; PROCESS DESIGN; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS TECHNOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; ALGORITHM; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIA; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84914689868     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112963     Document Type: Article

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