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Re:The human Y chromosome has been completely sequenced by sublinear on Friday August 25, 2023 @12:15AM (#37257994)
> The primary author of the shotgun assembly was Gene Myers, who previously had written BLAST...

So... um... BLAST processing?

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Re:The human Y chromosome has been completely sequenced by heyoni on Friday August 25, 2023 @09:13AM (#37261328)
I think blast is for mapping sequences on existing genomes, which uses similar algorithms but applied for a different purpose.
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