The Inner Workings of Scalpel (IMAGE)

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

The Inner Workings of Scalpel

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Each dot represents a short sequence of DNA from the reads mapped to a gene. The red path spells out the normal version of the gene, while the yellow path spells out a truncated path with the indel. The blue 'spikes' show where there are other errors in the reads that have been mapped here.

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M. Schatz/ Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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