Merging Contigs

HI,

I have contigs from two different assemblers but I want to merge contigs based on the overlap to increase the depth/coverage. What are the best available tools for performing this type of analysis?

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updated 3.6 years ago by Mark

• written 3.6 years ago by noorussubah95 •

1 answer

There's Pilon

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4237348/

and

https://github.com/mahulchak/quickmerge

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written 3.6 years ago by Mark

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