Scalable telomere-to-telomere assembly with hifiasm

This session is part of Biodiversity Genomics Academy 2023

Session Leader(s)

Haoyu Cheng
Research Fellow in Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School

Description

By the end of this session you will be able to:

1. Run hifiasm by yourself
2. Understand different types of assemblies
3. Understand how to improve the assembly quality when the results are not ideal

Prerequisites

1. Understanding the terms genome assembly, reads, contigs, genome graph
2. Understanding of linux command line basics

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