CRACS/INESC TEC team comes 6th in Assemblathon
A team from the Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems (INESC TEC/CRACS) came 6th in the first edition of the Assemblathon, an international competition where participants have to assemble a genome.
Assemblathon challenges participants to assemble a full genome from the multitude of short, overlapping snippets that second and third generation sequencing machines churn out.
The aim of this competition is to evaluate and encourage the development of computational genome assembly methods. Seventeen teams from laboratories and universities from seven countries (USA, China, the U.K., France, Portugal, Canada and Singapore) took part in this edition.
The results of the first edition of the Assemblathon were presented in an article published in Genome Research.
