%0 Journal Article %A Dmitry Antipov %A Nolan Hartwick %A Max Shen %A Mikhail Raiko %A Alla Lapidus %A Pavel A. Pevzner %T plasmidSPAdes: Assembling Plasmids from Whole Genome Sequencing Data %D 2016 %R 10.1101/048942 %J bioRxiv %P 048942 %X Motivation: Plasmids are stably maintained extra-chromosomal genetic elements that replicate independently from the host cell’s chromosomes. Although plasmids harbor biomedically important genes, (such as genes involved in virulence and antibiotics resistance), there is a shortage of specialized software tools for extracting and assembling plasmid data from whole genome sequencing projects.Results: We present the plasmidSPAdes algorithm and software tool for assembling plasmids from whole genome sequencing data and benchmark its performance on a diverse set of bacterial genomes. %U https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2016/04/15/048942.full.pdf