In whole-genome assembly, the BAC fragments (red line segments) and the reads from five individuals (black line segments) are combined to produce a contig and a consensus sequence (green line).

“Each computer does a little bit of work ... It offers an easy way to see the quality of a genome assembly and can display base qualities, machine-specific signals, genome feature annotations ...

According to a release, scientists at Arkansas Tech University (ATU) and the University of Arkansas (U of A) have "produced a high-quality genome assembly ... is leading the computer work to ...

Stephen Douglass is particularly interested in the intersection of computer science and biology ... statistics methodologies to study gene expression and splicing, genome assembly, and gene regulation ...