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).

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 ...