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SOAPdenovo2: an empirically improved memory-efficient short-read de novo assembler

Overview of attention for article published in Giga Science, December 2012
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Title
SOAPdenovo2: an empirically improved memory-efficient short-read de novo assembler
Published in
Giga Science, December 2012
DOI 10.1186/2047-217x-1-18
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Authors

Ruibang Luo, Binghang Liu, Yinlong Xie, Zhenyu Li, Weihua Huang, Jianying Yuan, Guangzhu He, Yanxiang Chen, Qi Pan, Yunjie Liu, Jingbo Tang, Gengxiong Wu, Hao Zhang, Yujian Shi, Yong Liu, Chang Yu, Bo Wang, Yao Lu, Changlei Han, David W Cheung, Siu-Ming Yiu, Shaoliang Peng, Zhu Xiaoqian, Guangming Liu, Xiangke Liao, Yingrui Li, Huanming Yang, Jian Wang, Tak-Wah Lam, Jun Wang

Abstract

There is a rapidly increasing amount of de novo genome assembly using next-generation sequencing (NGS) short reads; however, several big challenges remain to be overcome in order for this to be efficient and accurate. SOAPdenovo has been successfully applied to assemble many published genomes, but it still needs improvement in continuity, accuracy and coverage, especially in repeat regions. To overcome these challenges, we have developed its successor, SOAPdenovo2, which has the advantage of a new algorithm design that reduces memory consumption in graph construction, resolves more repeat regions in contig assembly, increases coverage and length in scaffold construction, improves gap closing, and optimizes for large genome. Benchmark using the Assemblathon1 and GAGE datasets showed that SOAPdenovo2 greatly surpasses its predecessor SOAPdenovo and is competitive to other assemblers on both assembly length and accuracy. We also provide an updated assembly version of the 2008 Asian (YH) genome using SOAPdenovo2. Here, the contig and scaffold N50 of the YH genome were ~20.9 kbp and ~22 Mbp, respectively, which is 3-fold and 50-fold longer than the first published version. The genome coverage increased from 81.16% to 93.91%, and memory consumption was ~2/3 lower during the point of largest memory consumption.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 19 <1%
Germany 13 <1%
Brazil 13 <1%
France 8 <1%
United Kingdom 8 <1%
Spain 6 <1%
Italy 6 <1%
Japan 5 <1%
Netherlands 5 <1%
Other 49 3%
Unknown 1800 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 472 24%
Researcher 362 19%
Student > Master 272 14%
Student > Bachelor 165 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 108 6%
Other 290 15%
Unknown 263 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 967 50%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 349 18%
Computer Science 107 6%
Environmental Science 36 2%
Immunology and Microbiology 28 1%
Other 121 6%
Unknown 324 17%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 62. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 October 2020.
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#691,106
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