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RICHARD J. CHALLIS

Wellcome Sanger InstituteORCID 0000-0002-3502-1122Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 3 Research Focus:database / resource· 2 Approach:experimental assay· 2 Organism:multiple species· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:genome assembly· 1 Research Focus:software / tool· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Mark BlaxteriD· 3 shared Chris D JigginsiD· 1 shared Edward RichardsiD· 1 shared Guy CochraneiD· 1 shared Jeena RajaniD· 1 shared Kanchon K DasmahapatraiD· 1 shared Sujai KumariD· 1 shared

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Snail plots are badges of genome assembly quality

RICHARD J. CHALLIS, Mark Blaxter

The paper introduces snail plots to assess genome assembly quality in a genome-size independent manner and shows they correlate with qualitative assessments of assembly quality.

G3 Genes Genomes Genetics · Apr 6, 2026Peer-reviewedBioinformatics

BlobToolKit Interactive quality assessment of genome assemblies

RICHARD J. CHALLIS, Edward Richards, Jeena Rajan, Guy Cochrane, Mark Blaxter

BlobToolKit combines GC proportion, read coverage and taxonomic hits per contig in an interactive browser Viewer, exposing contaminants and cobionts across public eukaryotic genome assemblies.

G3 Genes Genomes Genetics · Feb 18, 2020Peer-reviewedBioinformatics✦ In-depth digest

Lepbase: the Lepidopteran genome database

Richard J Challi, Sujai Kumar, Kanchon K Dasmahapatra, Chris D Jiggins, Mark Blaxter

Lepbase is a Tier 2 genomic database for Lepidoptera that provides tools for data access and analysis to support research on evolution, speciation, and pesticide resistance.

bioRxiv · Jun 6, 2016 · PreprintBioinformatics