January 2018
Authors:
Anna Tigano, Timothy Sackton, and Vicki Friesen
Info:
Researchers at Queen’s University and Harvard teamed up for an effort to assemble the highly heterozygous genome of an arctic colonial seabird. The found that the platanus assembler outperformed other methods, producing an assembly with an impressive 15.8 Mb N50. DNA integrity was evaluated using the Pippin Pulse.
Citation:
Molecular Ecology Resources
doi.org: 10.1111/1755-0998.12712