MEGAN-LR: new algorithms allow accurate binning and easy interactive exploration of metagenomic long reads and contigs.

Daniel H HusonBenjamin AlbrechtCaner BağcıIrina BessarabAnna GórskaDino JolicRohan B H Williams

Published in: Biology direct (2018)

This work extends the applicability of the widely-used metagenomic analysis software MEGAN to long reads. Our study suggests that the presented LAST+MEGAN-LR pipeline is sufficiently fast and accurate.

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