Sequence assembly

http://edamontology.org/operation_0310

Combine (align and merge) overlapping fragments of a DNA sequence to reconstruct the original sequence.

Synonyms: Sequence assembly editing, Metagenomic assembly

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For example, assemble overlapping reads from paired-end sequencers into contigs (a contiguous sequence corresponding to read overlaps). Or assemble contigs, for example ESTs and genomic DNA fragments, depending on the detected fragment overlaps.

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Nucleic acid sequence analysis
has output some Sequence assembly
has topic some Sequence assembly