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what are the best metagenome assemblers?

I am starting in the field of bioinformatics, could you indicate good metagenome assemblers?

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Don't know how one can choose the best assembler, but these two should be a good starting point:

Actually, if you are dealing with viruses or phages these are the best assemblers compared using a public benchmark set: enter image description here

s-aligner is first followed by metaSPAdes.

Reference: s-aligner: a greedy algorithm for non-greedy de novo genome assembly

Hi: After the test in our lab, mitofinder --metaspades gain the best result, you can also get mitochondrial data.

Is there any difference between mitofinder -metaspades and just metaSPAdes? Looks like mitofinder is not an assembler and just calls metaSPAdes.

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