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Wgsim - Distribution Of Reads Along The Genome

Does anybody how wgsim or simNGS chose the distribution of the reads along the genome? Randomly (so uniformly?)

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The simLibrary tool from the simNGS package samples the fragments uniformly form the genome. Strand bias can be specified through the -b argument.

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