Question

4. Which of the following is incorrect? a) Initial DNA sequencing reactions generate short sequence reads from DNA clones b) To assemble a whole genome sequence, these short fragments are joined to form larger fragments c) The average length of the reads is about 50 bases d) A number of overlapping contigs can be further merged to form scaffolds​

Answer 1

It also gives a probability score for each base call that may be attributable to error. ... Explanation: It takes Phred base-call files with quality scores as input and aligns individual fragments in a pairwise fashion using the Smith–Waterman algorithm.