Platon: identification and characterization of bacterial plasmid contigs in short-read draft assembliesexploiting protein-sequence-based replicon distribution scores
Oliver Schwengers, Patrick Barth, Linda Falgenhauer, Torsten Hain, Trinad Chakraborty, Alexander Goesmann
Platon identifies and characterizes plasmid contigs in bacterial draft assemblies using a replicon distribution score, achieving high accuracy and balanced performance across bacterial taxa.
Microbial Genomics · Jun 24, 2020Peer-reviewedBioinformatics