The phrase "a preliminary assembly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an initial gathering or meeting that is meant to set the stage for further discussions or actions.
Example: "Before we proceed with the main conference, we will hold a preliminary assembly to outline our objectives."
Alternatives: "an initial gathering" or "a preliminary meeting".
The Oases pipeline receives as input a preliminary assembly produced by the Velvet assembler (Zerbino and Birney, 2008) which was designed to produce scaffolds from genomic readsets.
Those size thresholds were chosen based on analysis of a preliminary assembly in which all reads within those size ranges failed to assemble, supporting the interpretation that they might represent sequencing artifacts.
The 58,894 end sequenced BACs were then aligned with a preliminary assembly of the shotgun sequence of the Brachypodium genome (http://www.brachypodium.org/), comprising 1015 super-contigs (SC) representing 260 Mb without gaps, of which 17 were longer than 1 Mb and represented 99% of the genome sequence.
Prior to manual revision, a preliminary assembly can make errors, especially regarding duplicate gene loci.
Insert size was estimated based on a preliminary assembly by a custom made perl script.
First we generated a preliminary assembly using Velvet, incorporating 77.0 million reads (88.2%) and generating 172,826 contigs.
Velvet assembler was used to produce a preliminary fragmented assembly, containing the mapping of the reads onto a set of contigs.
The designed arrays encompass part of the chromosomes 4, 7, 14, and 17 from the August 2007 preliminary assembly release with a median probe spacing of 409 bp.
In order to improve the preliminary assembly we developed a reference guided approach.
The presence of SNPs in glutamate dehydrogenase is probably due to a gene duplication followed by divergence; our preliminary assembly of ~4× coverage of the S. salmonicida genome indicates distinct upstream sequences for two paralogs (unpublished data).
Comparison with a preliminary genome assembly of the guppy (A.
