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ProSynAR: a reference aware read merger

NCJ Number
304567
Journal
Bioinformatics Volume: 38 Issue: 7 Dated: April 2022 Pages: 2052-2053
Author(s)
Benjamin Crysup; Bruce Budowle; August E. Woerner
Date Published
April 2022
Length
2 pages
Annotation

Since read-merging algorithms that look solely at the reads can misalign and mis-merge the reads (especially near repetitive sequences), the C++ program ProSynAR has been written to take the reads’ position in the reference into account when performing (and deciding whether to perform) a merge.

Abstract

Nix users can retrieve the source from GitHub (https://github.com/Benjamin-Crysup/prosynar). Windows binary available at https://github.com/Benjamin-Crysup/prosynar/releases/download/1.0/prosynar.zip. (Publisher Abstract)