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Misassemblies were recognized by: regions of high quality unaligned sequence; multiple runs of poly(A) and/or poly(T) (at least 15 nucleotides with no more than a one non-A/T base); internal poly(A) and/or poly(T) runs (> 50 nucleotides from either end of a contig and ≥ 15 or more nucleotides long with no more than one non-A/T base; internal stretches of low consensus quality (> 30 nucleotides from either end of a contig and ≥ 50 nucleotides where 90% of the nucleotides had a consensus quality below Phred 20).
“The beach,” as locals refer to it, stretches some 72 miles (115 km) from Malibu, through Santa Monica, Venice, Marina del Rey, Hermosa, and Redondo to Palos Verdes, before the white sands run into the pollution around the San Pedro and Long Beach shipyards.
Beyond it, the beach stretches to Alvor, a classic Algarvian fishermen’s village.
The full meaning of Canada’s “wide open spaces” becomes instantly apparent here, in the vast stretches of wheat field reaching to the horizon.
Five of the others have stretches of A or T between 15 and 26 bases, which are not unusual (Accession R52548 (3') and R52604 (5') = Superoxide dismutase 1 = spot 1c1,21 in Fig.