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ArticleGenome biology2021

Trycycler: consensus long-read assemblies for bacterial genomes.

Ryan R Wick, Louise M Judd, Louise T Cerdeira, Jane Hawkey, Guillaume Méric, Ben Vezina, Kelly L Wyres, Kathryn E Holt

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Article in Genome biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 378 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

378 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Ryan R WickDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia. rrwick@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0001-8349-0778
Louise M JuddDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia.
Louise T CerdeiraDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia.
Jane HawkeyDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia.
Guillaume MéricDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia.
Ben VezinaDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia.
Kelly L WyresDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia.
Kathryn E HoltDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While long-read sequencing allows for the complete assembly of bacterial genomes, long-read assemblies contain a variety of errors. Here, we present Trycycler, a tool which produces a consensus assembly from multiple input assemblies of the same genome. Benchmarking showed that Trycycler assemblies contained fewer errors than assemblies constructed with a single tool. Post-assembly polishing further reduced errors and Trycycler+polishing assemblies were the most accurate genomes in our study. As Trycycler requires manual intervention, its output is not deterministic. However, we demonstrated that multiple users converge on similar assemblies that are consistently more accurate than those produced by automated assembly tools.

Indexed as

Genome, BacterialSoftwareConsensus SequenceHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingSequence Analysis, DNABacterial genomicsGenome assemblyLong-read sequencingOxford Nanopore sequencingWhole-genome sequencing

Identifiers

PMID34521459
PMCPMC8442456

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