New study from the Yelick group (Lawrence Berkeley Lab) showed that MetaHipMer, a new tool for coassembly of large metagenome sequence datasets, recovers more complete genomes with lower error rates than sample-by-sample assembly. Published July 1, 2020 in Scientific Reports: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-67416-5
Joint Berkeley Initiative for Microbiome Science