Hi,
Can anyone help about scaffolding?
My situation is: I have a quite good genome assembly (contig N50 = 5M) which was generated from 80x pacbio long reads. In addition, I have 100x illumina pair-end short reads.
Do I need to do scaffolding on this assembly? What's the best practice to do it?
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xiaoyezao •
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Paired end short reads are from small fragments, see for example here.
https://www.ecseq.com/support/ngs/what-is-mate-pair-sequencing-useful-for
If you had long range information from say good 3-10 kbp libraries (its' really hard to generate good ones) then that was useful in the pre-long read era.
With your long pacbio reads you should probably be pretty happy with 5 MB contigs. Perhaps nanopore or HiC could be added to make a slightly more contiguous genome.
Another approach might be reference based scaffolding (eg program Medusa and others), assuming you have a closely related excellent reference sequence.
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