Drs. LinXing Chen and Jill Banfield (IGI and EPS departments at UC Berkeley) unveiled Contig Overlap Based Re-Assembly (COBRA), a bioinformatic tool that resolves viral MAG assembly breakpoints. They tested the tool using >200 published freshwater metagenomes and found that COBRA vastly improved our ability to generate circular genome assemblies from 34% to 70%.
Published February 6, 2024 in Natural Microbiology.

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