How to apply de Bruijn graphs to genome assembly

PEC Compeau, PA Pevzner, G Tesler - Nature biotechnology, 2011 - nature.com
A mathematical concept known as a de Bruijn graph turns the formidable challenge of
assembling a contiguous genome from billions of short sequencing reads into a tractable …

QUAST: quality assessment tool for genome assemblies

A Gurevich, V Saveliev, N Vyahhi, G Tesler - Bioinformatics, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Limitations of genome sequencing techniques have led to dozens of assembly algorithms,
none of which is perfect. A number of methods for comparing assemblers have been …

SPAdes: a new genome assembly algorithm and its applications to single-cell sequencing

…, AV Sirotkin, N Vyahhi, G Tesler… - Journal of …, 2012 - liebertpub.com
… A vertex w precedes (follows) vertex v in a graph G if there exists an edge from w to v (from
v to w) in G. indegree(v) (outdegree(v)) is the the number of vertices preceding (following) v. A …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping single molecule sequencing reads using basic local alignment with successive refinement (BLASR): application and theory

MJ Chaisson, G Tesler - BMC bioinformatics, 2012 - Springer
… Let A SDP be the set of anchors of length K SDP that are exact matches between the read
and the genome interval g s ,…,g f . Sparse dynamic programming finds the largest subset of …

Assembling single-cell genomes and mini-metagenomes from chimeric MDA products

…, T Woyke, JS Mclean, R Lasken, G Tesler… - Journal of …, 2013 - liebertpub.com
… Given a weighted graph G and a positive integer t, we define G t as the graph obtained
from G by breaking all edges longer than t. To break the de Bruijn graph into subnetworks, we …

Dynamics of mammalian chromosome evolution inferred from multispecies comparative maps

…, DM Larkin, AE der Wind, G Bourque, G Tesler… - science, 2005 - science.org
The genome organizations of eight phylogenetically distinct species from five mammalian
orders were compared in order to address fundamental questions relating to mammalian …

Assembling genomes and mini-metagenomes from highly chimeric reads

…, R Lasken, SR Clingenpeel, T Woyke, G Tesler… - … Molecular Biology: 17th …, 2013 - Springer
… Let G be a directed acyclic graph (DAG) with vertex set V and edge set E. For vertices v and
w in G, we define v ≺ w if there exists a directed path from v to w in G. A mapping f : V → V,E …

Initial sequence and comparative analysis of the cat genome

…, WE Johnson, G Bourque, G Tesler… - Genome …, 2007 - genome.cshlp.org
The genome sequence (1.9-fold coverage) of an inbred Abyssinian domestic cat was assembled,
mapped, and annotated with a comparative approach that involved cross-reference to …

Genome rearrangements in mammalian evolution: lessons from human and mouse genomes

P Pevzner, G Tesler - Genome research, 2003 - genome.cshlp.org
Although analysis of genome rearrangements was pioneered by Dobzhansky and Sturtevant
65 years ago, we still know very little about the rearrangement events that produced the …

Human and mouse genomic sequences reveal extensive breakpoint reuse in mammalian evolution

P Pevzner, G Tesler - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2003 - National Acad Sciences
G b N b = 9.6 Mb, where G b = 2,707 Mb is the overall length of syntenic blocks. The bin size
is 2.5 Mb. (Center) The same histogram superimposed with the 190 hidden synteny blocks …