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  • Velvet Columbus unexpected results

    Hi all,
    I have recently tried using Velvet Columbus extension in order to preform reference guided assembly of a whole genome sequence.
    I have tried using two references to which I mapped my read using BWA -
    The better one had 99.57% of reads mapped (and a cover of 99.9% of the reference)
    The worse one had only 84.54% of the reads mapped.

    I tried assembling with velvet Columbus with both of the references (the rest of the parameters were the same).
    Surprisingly, the worse reference had better result (225 contigs, L50 = 29) than the better reference (370 contigs, L50 = 39)

    My question is, are those results plausible? I used velvet running on the BAM file produced by BWA with the same parameters exactly. Is there anything wrong that I could have done on the way?

    Thank you a lot!!

  • #2
    I wonder if the repetitive content of the two genomes had anything to do with the unexpected results with Velvet Columbus?

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