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Meaning of "de novo" assembly

Posted by torstenseemann on 03 Nov 2011 at 01:29 GMT

"De novo assemblies were conducted using a global CLC alignment with parameters dependent on read length."

Did you perform a true de novo assembly, or simply align reads to a reference genome?

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RE: Meaning of "de novo" assembly

heyaudy replied to torstenseemann on 22 Jan 2013 at 17:48 GMT

It was true de novo assembly using Velvet.

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