SKESA
github.com/ncbi/skesaSKESA is a de-novo sequence read assembler for microbial genomes. It uses conservative heuristics and is designed to create breaks at repeat regions in the genome. This leads to excellent sequence quality without significantly compromising contiguity.
Sourced from
- GitHub — github.com/ncbi/skesa
- Awesome Bioinformatics — github.com/ncbi/skesa
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