Yoji Nakamura, Motoshige Yasuike, Issei Nishiki, Yuki Iwasaki, Atushi Fujiwara, Yasuhiko Kawato, Toshihiro Nakai, Satoshi Nagai, Takanori Kobayashi, Takashi Gojobori, Mitsuru Ototake
Next-generation sequencing technologies have allowed the rapid determination of the complete genomes of many organisms. Although shotgun sequences from large genome organisms are still difficult to reconstruct perfect contigs each of which represents a full chromosome, those from small genomes have been assembled successfully into a very small number of contigs. In this study, we show that shotgun reads from phage genomes can be reconstructed into a single contig by controlling the number of read sequences used in de novo assembly...
February 1, 2016: Gene