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ArticleGenome research2010

De novo assembly of human genomes with massively parallel short read sequencing.

Ruiqiang Li, Hongmei Zhu, Jue Ruan, Wubin Qian, Xiaodong Fang, Zhongbin Shi, Yingrui Li, Shengting Li, Gao Shan, Karsten Kristiansen and 4 more

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14 authors.

Ruiqiang LiBeijing Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China.
Hongmei Zhu
Jue Ruan
Wubin Qian
Xiaodong Fang
Zhongbin Shi
Yingrui Li
Shengting Li
Gao Shan
Karsten Kristiansen
Songgang Li
Huanming Yang
Jian Wang
Jun Wang

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Next-generation massively parallel DNA sequencing technologies provide ultrahigh throughput at a substantially lower unit data cost; however, the data are very short read length sequences, making de novo assembly extremely challenging. Here, we describe a novel method for de novo assembly of large genomes from short read sequences. We successfully assembled both the Asian and African human genome sequences, achieving an N50 contig size of 7.4 and 5.9 kilobases (kb) and scaffold of 446.3 and 61.9 kb, respectively. The development of this de novo short read assembly method creates new opportunities for building reference sequences and carrying out accurate analyses of unexplored genomes in a cost-effective way.

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Genome, HumanHuman Genome ProjectAsian PeopleBlack PeopleHumansOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisSequence AlignmentSequence Analysis, DNA

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PMID20019144
PMCPMC2813482

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