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Sequence assembly

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The assembly of fragments of a DNA sequence to reconstruct the original sequence.

Synonyms: Assembly

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Assembly has two broad types, de-novo and re-sequencing. Re-sequencing is a specialised case of assembly, where an assembled (typically de-novo assembled) reference genome is available and is about 95% identical to the re-sequenced genome. All other cases of assembly are 'de-novo'.

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