Figure 5.
Supercontig creation and gap filling. (A) A supercontig is constructed by successively linking pairs of contigs that share at least two forward-reverse links. Here, three contigs are joined into one supercontig. (B) ARACHNE attempts to fill gaps by using paths of contigs. The first gap in the supercontig shown here is filled with one contig, and the second gap is filled by a path consisting of two contigs.
