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Read phasing?

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Description

Description of feature

Currently genomeassembler does not assemble phased genomes. Clearly, being able to produce phased assemblies would be neat. There are several phasing strategies, for example hifiasm would support HI-C reads, or parental short-reads.
Maybe using https://github.com/yangao07/longcallD to phase the long-reads (assuming a reference is available) pre-assembly and assembling haplotypes from the phased reads would be a alternative option, that requires no additional inputs?

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Research direction

Start by comparing the proposed phasing strategies: Hi-C or parental short reads via hifiasm, and long-read phasing with longcallD when a reference is available. Clarify the required inputs and expected phased-assembly outputs before implementation; done means genomeassembler can produce phased assemblies through a defined strategy.

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Assessment

Domain
bioinformatics
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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