Assembly

DNA sequence data has become an indispensable tool for Molecular Biology & Evolutionary Biology. Study in these fields now require a genome sequence to work from. We call this a ‘Reference Sequence.’ We need to build a reference for each species. We do this by Genome Assembly. De novo Genome Assembly is the process of reconstructing the original DNA sequence from the fragment reads alone.

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Material

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An Introduction to Genome Assembly
An introduction to get started in genome assembly and annotation
Assembly of metagenomic sequencing data
assembly metagenomics microgalaxy
Assembly of the mitochondrial genome from PacBio HiFi reads
biodiversity
Chloroplast genome assembly
plants nanopore jbrowse1 biodiversity
De Bruijn Graph Assembly
Decontamination of a genome assembly
biodiversity
Deeper look into Genome Assembly algorithms
ERGA post-assembly QC
plants animals genome assembly QC biodiversity
Genome Assembly Quality Control
assembly quality control biodiversity
Genome Assembly of MRSA from Oxford Nanopore MinION data (and optionally Illumina data)
nanopore assembly amr microgalaxy
Genome Assembly of a bacterial genome (MRSA) sequenced using Illumina MiSeq Data
illumina assembly microgalaxy
Genome assembly and assembly QC - Introduction short version
Genome assembly using PacBio data
assembly pacbio biodiversity
Hybrid genome assembly - Nanopore and Illumina
assembly nanopore illumina denovo genomics
Large genome assembly and polishing
assembly polishing nanopore plants biodiversity
Making sense of a newly assembled genome
gmod prokaryote microgalaxy jbrowse1
Unicycler Assembly
prokaryote microgalaxy biodiversity
Unicycler assembly of SARS-CoV-2 genome with preprocessing to remove human genome reads
covid19 biodiversity
Using the VGP workflows to assemble a vertebrate genome with HiFi and Hi-C data
pacbio eukaryote VGP biodiversity
Vertebrate genome assembly using HiFi, Bionano and Hi-C data - Step by Step
pacbio eukaryote VGP biodiversity

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This project (2020-1-NL01-KA203-064717) is funded with the support of the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union. Their funding has supported a large number of tutorials within the GTN across a wide array of topics.
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