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ArticleG3 (Bethesda, Md.)2020

LongQC: A Quality Control Tool for Third Generation Sequencing Long Read Data.

Yoshinori Fukasawa, Luca Ermini, Hai Wang, Karen Carty, Min-Sin Cheung

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Article in G3 (Bethesda, Md.), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 135 papers.

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135citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

135 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Yoshinori FukasawaKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Core Labs, Thuwal, Makkah, Saudi Arabia, 23955-6900 yoshinori.fukasawa@kaust.edu.sa nicole.cheung@kaust.edu.sa.ORCID 0000-0002-0882-4392
Luca ErminiKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Core Labs, Thuwal, Makkah, Saudi Arabia, 23955-6900.ORCID 0000-0001-8109-6021
Hai WangKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Core Labs, Thuwal, Makkah, Saudi Arabia, 23955-6900.
Karen CartyKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Core Labs, Thuwal, Makkah, Saudi Arabia, 23955-6900.
Min-Sin CheungKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Core Labs, Thuwal, Makkah, Saudi Arabia, 23955-6900 yoshinori.fukasawa@kaust.edu.sa nicole.cheung@kaust.edu.sa.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We propose LongQC as an easy and automated quality control tool for genomic datasets generated by third generation sequencing (TGS) technologies such as Oxford Nanopore technologies (ONT) and SMRT sequencing from Pacific Bioscience (PacBio). Key statistics were optimized for long read data, and LongQC covers all major TGS platforms. LongQC processes and visualizes those statistics automatically and quickly.

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High-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingNanoporesQuality ControlSequence Analysis, DNALong readOxford NanoporePacBioQuality controlthird generation sequencers

Identifiers

PMID32041730
PMCPMC7144081

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