Abstract:
:Gap closure is a challenging phase in microbial random shotgun genome sequencing projects, particularly since genome assemblies are often complicated by the presence of repeat elements, insertion sequences and other similar factors that contribute to sequence misassemblies. While it is well recognized that the conservation of genetic information between microbial genomes, combined with the exponential increase in available microbial sequences, can be exploited to increase the efficiency of gap closure, we lack the computational tools to aid in this process. We describe here a new tool, MGView, which was developed to create a graphical depiction of the alignment of a set of microbial contigs against a completed microbial genome. The results of our assembly of the Staphylococcus aureus RF122 genome show that MGView enables a considerable reduction in time and economic cost associated with closure. Together, the results also show that the application of MGView not only enables a reduction in fold-coverage requirements of the random shotgun sequence phase, but also provides interesting insights into differences in gene content and organization between finished and unfinished microbial genomes.
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Nucleic Acids Resjournal_title
Nucleic acids researchauthors
Herron-Olson L,Freeman J,Zhang Q,Retzel EF,Kapur Vdoi
10.1093/nar/gng107keywords:
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Has Abstractpub_date
2003-09-01 00:00:00pages
e106issue
17eissn
0305-1048issn
1362-4962journal_volume
31pub_type
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