Celera is the first generation of assembler capable of assembling the genomes of multicellular organisms. It was used to assemble the model organism, fruit fly, and subsequently used to assemble the first human genome. The algorithm implemented is based on Overlap-Layout-Consensus.
Sequence assembly
Myers EW, Sutton GG, Delcher AL, Dew IM, Fasulo DP, Flanigan MJ, Kravitz SA, Mobarry CM, Reinert KH, Remington KA, Anson EL, Bolanos RA, Chou HH, Jordan CM, Halpern AL, Lonardi S, Beasley EM, Brandon RC, Chen L, Dunn PJ, Lai Z, Liang Y, Nusskern DR, Zhan M, Zhang Q, Zheng X, Rubin GM, Adams MD, Venter JC "A whole-genome assembly of Drosophila." Science. 2000 Mar 24;287(5461):2196-204. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.287.5461.2196
PMID: 10731133
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