ContigExtender: a new approach to improving de novo sequence assembly for viral metagenomics data.BACKGROUND
 ContigExtender employs a novel recursive extending strategy that explores multiple extending paths to achieve highly accurate longer contigs.  We demonstrate that ContigExtender outperforms existing tools in synthetic, animal, and human metagenomics datasets.


 A novel software tool ContigExtender has been developed to assist and enhance the performance of metagenome de novo assembly.  ContigExtender effectively extends contigs from a variety of sources and can be incorporated in most viral metagenomics analysis pipelines for a wide variety of applications, including pathogen detection and viral discovery.
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