TY - JOUR T1 - plasmidSPAdes: Assembling Plasmids from Whole Genome Sequencing Data JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/048942 SP - 048942 AU - Dmitry Antipov AU - Nolan Hartwick AU - Max Shen AU - Mikhail Raiko AU - Alla Lapidus AU - Pavel A. Pevzner Y1 - 2016/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/04/17/048942.abstract N2 - 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.Availability and implementation PLASMIDSPADES is publicly available at http://spades.bioinf.spbau.ru/plasmidSPAdes/Contact d.antipov{at}spbu.ru ER -