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Pebble and Rock Band: Heuristic Resolution of Repeats and Scaffolding in the Velvet Short-Read de Novo Assembler

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Title
Pebble and Rock Band: Heuristic Resolution of Repeats and Scaffolding in the Velvet Short-Read de Novo Assembler
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PLOS ONE, December 2009
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0008407
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Daniel R. Zerbino, Gayle K. McEwen, Elliott H. Margulies, Ewan Birney

Abstract

Despite the short length of their reads, micro-read sequencing technologies have shown their usefulness for de novo sequencing. However, especially in eukaryotic genomes, complex repeat patterns are an obstacle to large assemblies.

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Country Count As %
United States 19 4%
United Kingdom 12 3%
Germany 7 2%
Netherlands 4 <1%
Norway 4 <1%
Brazil 3 <1%
Spain 3 <1%
Sweden 3 <1%
Australia 2 <1%
Other 20 4%
Unknown 381 83%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 117 26%
Student > Ph. D. Student 114 25%
Student > Master 58 13%
Other 26 6%
Professor > Associate Professor 24 5%
Other 89 19%
Unknown 30 7%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 266 58%
Computer Science 63 14%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 47 10%
Mathematics 8 2%
Environmental Science 7 2%
Other 30 7%
Unknown 37 8%