Genome assembly quality: assessment and improvement using the neutral indel model.

We describe a statistical and comparative-genomic approach for quantifying error rates of genome sequence assemblies. The method exploits not substitutions but the pattern of insertions and deletions (indels) in genome-scale alignments for closely related species. Using two- or three-way alignments,...

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Main Authors: Meader, S, Hillier, L, Locke, D, Ponting, C, Lunter, G
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2010