Assembler artifacts include misassembly because of unsafe unitigs and underassembly because of bidirected graphs

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Figure 3.
Figure 3.

Illustration of an unsafe unitig. Panel A shows two parts of a sequenced genome X. Regions surrounded by green dashed boxes are the sequenced segments S. The solid blue boxes represent two copies of a repeat. Panel B shows the resulting Formula, with dashed vertices and edges representing vertices that are in Gbasic(spk(X)) but not sequenced.

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  1. Genome Res. 32: 1746-1753

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