The process of polishing causes a significant decrease in genome size.

[xujialupaoli]

Hello, thank you for providing such a useful assembly software. I have a question and would like your help. After nextpolish polished my genome file, my genome size was reduced a lot. Why does polishing cause a significant decrease in genome size? In the picture, I sorted out the genome size assembled by nextdenovo, the genome size after purge_dups, and the genome size after nextpolish.