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Use Minimap2 for scaffolding instead of SortMeRNA

Open ppericard opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

SortMeRNA is designed to align short reads, Illumina type, and is used as the starting step in MATAM. SortMeRNA is also used to re-align the assembled contigs onto the reference database to perform scaffolding. This is not optimal, and for scaffolding, SortMeRNA should probably be replaced by a more appropriate mapper such as Minimap2.

ppericard avatar May 11 '23 08:05 ppericard