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Gossamer

A Space-Efficient Genome Assembler

Succinct Data Structures for Assembling Large Genomes

Gossamer is an application for the de novo assembly of geenomes from fragments of DNA that specifically attacks the question of scalability. The advantage of Gossamer is that large data sets can be assembled on computers with small amounts of memory.

Contact

bioinformatics<at>nicta.com.au

README.txt (goss-1.2.1-r) CHANGES.txt (goss-1.2.1-r)

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