Genome assembly in the spotlight
Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - 09:01
in Biology & Nature
The largest systematic assessment the process of genome assembly is published today in BGI and BioMed Central's open access journal GigaScience. The second Assemblaton competition saw 21 teams submit 43 entries based on data from three different unassembled bird, fish, and snake genomes sequenced using three different technologies. BGI participated in the competition with their SOAPdenovo team, and also provided sequencing data for the bird genome. Ten key metrics are outlined, based on over 100 different measures for each assembly, and they focus on different aspects of an assembly's quality.