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Gaëtan Benoit

Earlham Institute

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Research Focus:genome assembly· 2 Assay:long-read sequencing· 2 Assay:metagenomics· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Research Focus:software / tool· 1

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High-quality metagenome assembly from nanopore reads with nanoMDBG

Gaëtan Benoit, Robert S James, Sébastien Raguideau, Georgina Alabone, Tim Goodall, Rayan Chikhi, Christopher Quince

nanoMDBG improves metagenome assembly from ONT reads, producing more high-quality MAGs with less computational resources than existing assemblers.

Nature Communications · Mar 6, 2026Peer-reviewedBioinformatics

Efficient High-Quality Metagenome Assembly from Long Accurate Reads using Minimizer-space de Bruijn Graphs

Gaëtan Benoit, Sébastien Raguideau, Robert S James, Adam M. Phillippy, Rayan Chikhi, Christopher Quince

The paper introduces a metagenomics assembler that improves efficiency and assembly quality for long reads, achieving faster performance and better recovery of MAGs and viral/plasmid sequences.

bioRxiv · Jul 7, 2023 · PreprintBioinformatics