chhylp123 / hifiasm

Hifiasm: a haplotype-resolved assembler for accurate Hifi reads
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Clarification on the post-join step #695

Open diego-rt opened 3 months ago

diego-rt commented 3 months ago

Hello again,

I have a situation where a couple of unitigs which are disconnected (i.e. have no edges in the p_utg.gfa) suddenly turn into a contiguous contig in the following step (using hifiasm with UL reads). I was wondering if you could explain why does this happen?

I assume this question might be related the functioning of the --max-kocc and -u options but I could not find any info on how these two steps work. I'm trying to assemble a satellite region so my concern is that the regions is getting collapsed.

Many thanks for your help as always!