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ArticleAccess microbiology2025

Are reads required? High-precision variant calling from bacterial genome assemblies.

Ryan R Wick, Louise M Judd, Timothy P Stinear, Ian R Monk

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Article in Access microbiology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Ryan R WickDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-8349-0778
Louise M JuddDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-3613-4839
Timothy P StinearDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-0150-123X
Ian R MonkDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-6982-8074

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accurate nucleotide variant calling is essential in microbial genomics, particularly for outbreak tracking and phylogenetics. This study evaluates variant calls derived from genome assemblies compared to traditional read-based variant-calling methods, using seven closely related

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genome assemblymicrobial genomicsStaphylococcus aureusvariant calling

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PMID40443474
PMCPMC12120141

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