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Difference b/w primary and alternate genome assembly ?

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sunnykevin97 ▴ 990

HI

Can some one give better explanation of primary and alternate genome assembly ?

The organism I'm working has only "primary assembly" can I use this assembly for my data analysis work?

Need suggestions!

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ADD COMMENT • link updated 4.9 years ago by GenoMax 147k • written 4.9 years ago by sunnykevin97 ▴ 990

score 5 · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-02

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GenoMax 147k

NCBI's assembly model is described on this page. If a RefSeq assembly is available for your organism then you should use that for your (unspecified above) analysis.

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The primary assembly contains only 26 Chromosomes (25 + mtDNA). The unplaced scaffolds (23) information was missing in the genome assembly. Can I use this as a ref genome for mapping transcriptome ? suggestions!

ADD REPLY • link 4.9 years ago by sunnykevin97 ▴ 990

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Unless you are specifically interested in alternate haplotypes/unplaced scaffolds you can use the primary assembly.

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Does the alternate genome assembly has more information than the primary assembly.

For phylogenetics studies which assembly is prefered ?

ADD REPLY • link 2.5 years ago by pinn ▴ 210

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It's up to YOU, It better go for Alternate genome assembly, more genome information.

Especially for Phylogenetic studies, genome coverage I'd be very low (~9-50X). You can give it a try.

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