Improved assemblies using a source-agnostic pipeline for metagenomic assembly by merging (MeGAMerge) of contigs

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Scholz, Matthew ^a,b   Lo, Chien Chi ^a,b   Chain, Patrick S G ^a,b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTIG MAPPING; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONTIG MAPPING; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84923315717     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06480     Document Type: Article

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