Introduction Bacterial genomes vary widely in size depending on their ecology, lifestyle, and evolutionary history. Understanding the average bacterial genome size is essential for designing sequencing experiments, estimating coverage, …

Introduction Shotgun metagenomics allows researchers to sequence all genetic material in an environmental sample. However, after assembly, the resulting dataset contains thousands of contigs from multiple organisms. To reconstruct …

Learn how to assemble a bacterial genome from Oxford Nanopore sequencing reads. This guide explains the complete genome assembly workflow using long-read sequencing data.