Scaffolding (bioinformatics)

Scaffolding is a technique used in bioinformatics. It is defined as follows:[1]

Link together a non-contiguous series of genomic sequences into a scaffold, consisting of sequences separated by gaps of known length. The sequences that are linked are typically contiguous sequences corresponding to read overlaps.

See Also

contig

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