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NextPolish2: a repeat-aware polishing tool for genomes assembled using HiFi long reads

2023/4/27
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Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.04.26.538352v1?rss=1

Authors: Hu, J., Wang, Z., Liang, F., Liu, S., Ye, K., Wang, D.

Abstract: The high-fidelity (HiFi) long-read sequencing technology developed by PacBio has greatly improved the base-level accuracy of genome assemblies, but these assemblies still contain some base-level errors, particularly within the error-prone regions of HiFi long reads. However, existing genome polishing tools usually introduce overcorrections and haplotype switch errors when correcting errors in genomes assembled from HiFi long reads. Here we describe an upgraded genome polishing tool - NextPolish2, which can fix base errors remaining in those "highly accurate" genomes assembled from HiFi long reads without introducing excess overcorrections and haplotype switch errors. We believe NextPolish2 has a great significance to further improve the accuracy of Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) genomes. NextPolish2 is freely available at https://github.com/Nextomics/NextPolish2.

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