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Scaling up multiple-genome alignments

Progressive Cactus enables reference-free multiple-genome alignment for massive datasets.

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  • Armstrong, J. et al. Progressive Cactus is a multiple-genome aligner for the thousand-genome era. Nature 587, 246–251 (2020).

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Tang, L. Scaling up multiple-genome alignments. Nat Methods 18, 33 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-020-01045-8

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