Project

De novo genome assembly using both second and third generation sequencing data

Code
3G0C3914
Duration
01 January 2014 → 31 December 2019
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Scientific computing
    • Bioinformatics and computational biology
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Bioinformatics and computational biology
    • Bioinformatics and computational biology
    • Public health care
    • Public health services
    • Bioinformatics and computational biology
  • Engineering and technology
    • Scientific computing
Keywords
DNA sequencing De Bruijn graph parallelization
 
Project description

The development of new algorithms for a hybrid genome assembler that utilizes the complementary information of both second and third generation sequence data. We aim at the development of scalable algorithms that can handle the reconstruction of large and complex genomes.