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PEAR: a fast and accurate Illumina Paired-End reAd mergeR

20134,804 citationsJournal Articlehybrid Open Access

Authors

Jiajie Zhang · Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Kassian Kobert · Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Tomáš Flouri · Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies

Alexandros Stamatakis · Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies

Abstract

PEAR is implemented in C and uses POSIX threads. It is freely available at http://www.exelixis-lab.org/web/software/pear.

Topics & Keywords

Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Publication Details

Published in: Bioinformatics

Volume 30, Issue 5, pp. 614-620

DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt593

Field-Weighted Citation Impact: 41.79

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