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  • deNovo/merged genome to big

    Hello Everyone,

    in my project, I deNovo-assembled a genome of a non-model rodent using "Abyss". I now have various scaffolds, which I merged, using "GAM-NGS". I know that the genome is about 3 billion bp long. The merged genome(s) however, are much longer, some about 3.8 billion bp.
    I already filtered out all scaffolds smaller than 1000 bp, which is the average length of a gene for this species. Can I naively throw out the smallest scaffolds until I reach ~3 billion bp, or do I have to tweak the merging process?
    My usual way of determining the quality of an assembled genome is mapping back DNA/RNA-Seq data and look at the mapping rate, but this obviously favors larger genomes.
    I would appreciate if someone could share his/her experience here.
    Thanks
    Robert

    Update: I tested various assemblers, but Abyss performed best. I am merging assemblies for different Kmers, which is recommended in literature.
    Last edited by Haumich; 01-09-2016, 10:38 PM.

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    You only mention Abyss. I haven't used GAM-NGS, but I thought the idea was to merge assemblies produced by different assemblers. I would try one or more other assemblers to see how different the assemblies they give are.

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