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The presence of low copy-number repeats can also confound assembly, especially for whole-genome shotgun sequencing projects [ 1].
We confirmed the sequence quality of the genomic region encompassing CG018314 (12,731 bp) by independently assembling an 18,284 bp contig consisting solely of whole-genome shotgun (WGS) traces.
Multiple tandem repeats of the octameric sequence "AGGGCAGT" were initially discovered when searching sequence files generated from the shotgun sequencing of Brucella abortus biovar 1, strain 9-941 for a subsequence (TAGGGC) of IS 711 . The B. abortus genome had nine chromosomal loci containing at least two complete copies of the octameric repeat.
All three BACs were fragmented by ultrasound, shotgun cloned into the vector pBluescript-KS, and extensively sequenced using ABI model 373 and 377 sequencers, using Big Dye terminators; 959 reads were obtained from 390I17, 1503 reads from 110P15, and 2731 reads from 152C16.
However, no law prohibited them from acquiring both a shotgun and a saw.