Meanings of read technologies in English

We assess how well long- read or linked- read technologies resolve these regions.

Long- read technologies can potentially solve such problems but are currently unfeasible to use at scale.

There remain thousands of potentially important genomic regions overlooked by short- read sequencing that are largely resolved by long- read technologies.

This greatly improves the accuracy of genome assemblies by spanning the highly repetitive segments that cause difficulty for second-generation short- read technologies.

However, today's long- read technologies are more accurate and less expensive, making them the method of choice for the assembly of complex genomes.

Background: Long read technologies have revolutionized de novo genome assembly by generating contigs orders of magnitude longer than that of short read assemblies.