The SAMBA tool uses long reads to improve the contiguity of genome assemblies

• Aleksey V. Zimin ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: aleksey.zimin@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Center for Computational Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5091-3092

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• Steven L. Salzberg

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Center for Computational Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8859-7432

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