Birgit Rijvers
birgitrijvers.bsky.social
Birgit Rijvers
@birgitrijvers.bsky.social
Bioinformatician focusing mostly on the microbiome🖥️🦠 Based in the Netherlands 🇳🇱
Reposted by Birgit Rijvers
New preprint is out!
We investigate how well you can call variants directly from genome assemblies compared to traditional read-based variant calling.

Read it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Data & code: github.com/rrwick/Are-r...
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Are reads required? High-precision variant calling from bacterial genome assemblies
Accurate nucleotide variant calling is essential in microbial genomics, particularly for outbreak tracking and phylogenetics. This study evaluates variant calls derived from genome assemblies compared...
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March 3, 2025 at 3:24 AM