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Benchmarking of Hi-C tools for scaffolding de novo genome assemblies

Obinu, L.; Trivedi, U.; Porceddu, A.

2023-05-18 genomics
10.1101/2023.05.16.540917 bioRxiv
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The implementation of Hi-C reads in the de novo genome assembly allows to order large regions of the genome in scaffolds, obtaining chromosome-level assemblies. Several bioinformatics tools have been developed for genome scaffolding with Hi-C, and all have pros and cons which need to be carefully evaluated before adoption. We developed assemblyQC, a bash pipeline that combines QUAST, BUSCO, Merqury and, optionally, Liftoff, plus a gene positioning validation script to evaluate and benchmark the performance of three scaffolders, 3d-dna, SALSA2, and YaHS, on two de novo assembly of Arabidopsis thaliana obtained from the same raw PacBio HiFi and ONT data. In our analysis, YaHS proved to be the best-performing bioinformatic tool for scaffolding of de novo genome assembly.

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