Category Archives: Publications

Fosmid libraries provide long range linking information that can vastly improve the size of an assembly’s scaffolds.  Whilst these optional libraries are not required for small genomes, we do recommend them if you are trying to assemble anything large. However, building … Continue reading →

Our manuscript “Finished bacterial genomes from shotgun sequence data” was just posted as an accepted preprint in Genome Research.  “By applying a new laboratory design and new assembly algorithm to sixteen samples, we demonstrate that assemblies exceeding finished quality can … Continue reading →

Bioinform article. One small note…  The article says that the “team next plans to focus on improving the quality of the data used in the assemblies”.  This is ONE focus!  We are also actively engaged in making ALLPATHS-LG work better … Continue reading →

In Sequence article.  See also the article on the Broad website.

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/12/20/1017351108.full.pdf+html