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Mind the gaps

By grouping short reads derived from the same long genomic fragment, the reads can easily be assembled into fragments that approach the length of capillary sequencing reads.

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Figure 1: Turning short reads into long reads using subassembly.

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Salzberg, S. Mind the gaps. Nat Methods 7, 105–106 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth0210-105

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