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High-quality phage assembly from metagenomes with PALACE.

Jul 2026 · Nature Biotechnology · 0 citations · 50 references
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PALACE, a conjugate-graph-based framework for assembling high-quality phage genomes from metagenomes, incorporates homology-based and deep-learning-based methods to detect phage signals and constructs a conjugate graph from the metagenomic sample.

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