HiMMe: using genetic patterns as a proxy for genome assembly reliability assessment.
Jordi AbanteNoushin GhaffariCharles D JohnsonAniruddha DattaPublished in: BMC genomics (2017)
Our methodology provides an individual quality metric per contig in addition to an overall genome assembly score, with a time complexity well below that of an aligner. Ultimately, HiMMe provides meaningful statistical insights that can be leveraged by researchers to better select contigs and genome assemblies for downstream analysis.