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Etymology edit

super- +‎ contig

Noun edit

supercontig (plural supercontigs)

  1. (genetics) An ordered and oriented set of contigs that still contains some gaps. See also scaffold. [1][2]
  2. (genetics) A set of joint contigs from the individuals of a study group or population. [3]

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References edit

  1. ^ [1], Hunt et al.: A comprehensive evaluation of assembly scaffolding tools, Genome Biol 15, R42 (2014)
  2. ^ [2], Coombe et al.: ARKS: chromosome-scale scaffolding of human genome drafts with linked read kmers, BMC Bioinformatics 19, 234 (2018)
  3. ^ [3], Kehr et al.: PopIns: population-scale detection of novel sequence insertions, Bioinformatics, Volume 32, Issue 7, 1 April 2016, Pages 961–967

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