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This is the archive site for PRICE (Paired-Read Iterative Contig Extension), a de novo genome assembler implemented in C++ by Graham Ruby. This tool is no longer maintained, and many other tools are now superior to it. It is still here for download if you want to give it a try! Its name describes the strategy that it implements for genome assembly: PRICE uses paired-read information to iteratively increase the size of pre-assembled contigs. It was designed to address the challenge of assembling viral genomes that constituted a small minority of the reads within ultra-deep, short-read, metagenomic, shotgun datasets.

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