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fanli · 03-08-2017, 08:33 AM

Out of curiosity, why are you joining the read pairs? A lot of the metagenomics software out there now supports paired end reads as input. The metaSPAdes assembler @GenoMax mentioned requires paired end data IIRC.

03-08-2017, 08:33 AM	#17
fanli Senior Member Location: California Join Date: Jul 2014 Posts: 198	Out of curiosity, why are you joining the read pairs? A lot of the metagenomics software out there now supports paired end reads as input. The metaSPAdes assembler @GenoMax mentioned requires paired end data IIRC.