FLASH: fast length adjustment of short reads to improve genome assemblies.

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Published in Bioinformatics on September 07, 2011

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Tanja Magoč1, Steven L Salzberg

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1: McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. t.magoc@gmail.com

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