Reassemble contig

If you have edited a contig, changed trimmed regions, or added or removed reads, you may wish to reassemble the contig. This can be done in two ways:

        Toolbox in the Menu Bar | Molecular Biology Tools (Image lab_work_support) | Sequencing Data Analysis (Image assemblyfolder)| Reassemble Contig (Image reassemble_contig) | select the contig and click Next

   or  right-click in the empty white area of the contig | Reassemble contig (Image reassemble_contig)

This opens a dialog as shown in figure 18.15

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Figure 18.15: Re-assembling a contig.

In this dialog, you can choose:

When you click Finish, a new contig is created, so you do not lose the information in the old contig.