Valentine Murigneux

Working closely with researchers, the QCIF Bioinformatics team apply data management, processing, integration, analysis and visualisation techniques to maximise the potential value of biological and clinical data sets. QCIF Bioinformatics is a partner in the Australian BioCommons.

microPIPE was developed to automate high-quality complete bacterial genome assembly using Oxford Nanopore Sequencing in combination with Illumina sequencing.

To build microPIPE we evaluated the performance of several tools at each step of bacterial genome assembly, including basecalling, assembly, and polishing. Results at each step were validated using the high-quality ST131 Escherichia coli strain EC958 (GenBank: HG941718.1). After appraisal of each step, we selected the best combination of ...