[mira_talk] Re: 500Mb assembly

  • From: Bastien Chevreux <bach@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mira_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:50:47 +0100

On Donnerstag 10 Dezember 2009 Filip Van Nieuwerburgh wrote:
> I checked the repeats in the most closely related genome (honey bee).
> The biggest repeat was around 2000bp.

I'm a bit sceptical here. Even bacteria have repeats larger than that and many 
of them you don't get assembled completely with only a 3kb library. 

You've got a higher eukaryote ... how did you get to 2k as maximum repeat 
size?

Regards,
  Bastien

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