BMCBI
2007
13 years 11 months ago
2007
Background: The question of how a circle or line segment becomes covered when random arcs are marked off has arisen repeatedly in bioinformatics. The number of uncovered gaps is o...
BMCBI
2010
13 years 11 months ago
2010
We study the shape of coverage functions resulting from the sequencing of random genome fragments, and show that they can be described by Galton-Watson trees. This extends standar...
WABI
2001
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2001
Springer
Using current technology, large consecutive stretches of DNA (such as whole chromosomes) are usually assembled from short fragments obtained by shotgun sequencing, or from fragment...