COBRA improves the completeness and contiguity of viral genomes assembled from metagenomes

[hoelzer]

If a specialized virus metagenome assembly tool should be added to the pipeline to improve initial assemblies, this is something to check more closely

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-023-01598-2

COBRA (Contig Overlap Based Re-Assembly) is a bioinformatics tool to get higher quality viral genomes assembled from metagenomes of short paired-end reads. COBRA was written in Python. COBRA has so far only been tested on assembled contigs from metaSPAdes, IDBA_UD, and MEGAHIT.

https://github.com/linxingchen/cobra