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. 2021:2278:31-44.
doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1274-3_4.

Assembly, Annotation, and Comparative Analysis of Bifidobacterial Genomes

Gabriele Andrea Lugli  1
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Assembly, Annotation, and Comparative Analysis of Bifidobacterial Genomes

Gabriele Andrea Lugli. Methods Mol Biol. 2021.

Abstract

Genome assembly and annotation are two of the key actions that must be undertaken in order to explore the genomic repertoire of (bifido)bacteria. The gathered information can be employed to genomically characterize a given microorganism, and can also be used to perform comparative genome analysis by including other sequenced (bifido)bacterial strains. Here, we highlight various bioinformatic programs able to manage next generation sequencing data starting from the assembly of a genome to the comparative analyses between strains.

Keywords: Bifidobacterium; Genomics; Next generation sequencing; Pangenome; Phylogenetics.

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