NextPolish: a fast and efficient genome polishing tool for long-read assembly

• Published in: Bioinformatics Vol. 36; no. 7; pp. 2253 - 2255
• Main Authors: Hu, Jiang, Fan, Junpeng, Sun, Zongyi, Liu, Shanlin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Oxford University Press 01.04.2020

Abstract Motivation Although long-read sequencing technologies can produce genomes with long contiguity, they suffer from high error rates. Thus, we developed NextPolish, a tool that efficiently corrects sequence errors in genomes assembled with long reads. This new tool consists of two interlinked...