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. 2015 Sep 1;31(17):2885-7.
doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv290. Epub 2015 May 6.

BFC: correcting Illumina sequencing errors

Heng Li  1
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BFC: correcting Illumina sequencing errors

Heng Li. Bioinformatics. .

Abstract

BFC is a free, fast and easy-to-use sequencing error corrector designed for Illumina short reads. It uses a non-greedy algorithm but still maintains a speed comparable to implementations based on greedy methods. In evaluations on real data, BFC appears to correct more errors with fewer overcorrections in comparison to existing tools. It particularly does well in suppressing systematic sequencing errors, which helps to improve the base accuracy of de novo assemblies.

Availability and implementation: https://github.com/lh3/bfc

Contact: hengli@broadinstitute.org

Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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