In June an article titled “StrainSeeker: fast identification of bacterial strains from raw sequencing reads using user-provided guide trees” was published in PeerJ by Märt Roosaare, Mihkel Vaher, Lauris Kaplinski, Märt Möls, Reidar Andreson, Maarja Lepamets, Triinu Kõressaar, Paul Naaber, Siiri Kõljalg and Maido Remm.
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In May there was an article published by Fanny-Dhelia Pajuste, Lauris Kalpinski, Märt Möls, Tarmo Puurand, Maarja Lepamets and Maido Remm in Scientific Reports, titled “FastGT: an alignment-free method for calling common SNVs directly from raw sequencing reads”.
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