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Length of Contigs in Transcriptome and Whole Genome Assembly

Why are there shorter contigs from transcriptome assembly than from a whole genome assembly? I know the difference between transcriptome and genome, but don't really understand what contigs are in the ...
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Can someone help me estimating the runtime of the pipeline applied by the vertebrate genome project?

The vertebrate genome project (VGP) has a lot of interesting publications such as this one. The rough pipeline is outlined below: Here the pipeline in more detail: While the paper describes all the ...
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Which one is a more convenient assembly?

I have developed a software for de novo genome assembly. Its performance varies gradually according to how much data you employ. At initial stages it often produces contigs that look like that when ...
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Genome assembly of SRR12196449 with SPAdes

I am trying to assemble the run SRR12196449 with SPAdes. The description of their project is: This project expected to standardize a method for amplification and ...
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Separation of mixed plasmid DNA sequences post whole-plasmid sequencing

Imagine a DNA sample containing a mixture of different intact plasmids. These samples are sequenced using either MiSeq or HiSeq sequencing. Would it possible to assemble these plasmids post-sequencing ...
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Can the canu assembler output a fastq file of the final assembly just like HGAP4?

I have assembled some genome from Sequel PacBio data both with HGAP4 on the SMRT Link interface and using canu on the command line. The HGAP4 assembler outputs a fastq file of the final assembly such ...
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