Telomere-to-telomere assembly detects genomic diversity in Canadian strains of Borrelia burgdorferi.

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Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria causing Lyme disease, has a complex genome comprising a linear chromosome and multiple linear and circular plasmids. The atypical hairpin telomeres and the highly paralogous plasmids complicate genome assembly. We develop a genome assembly pipeline using both long and short reads to overcome these challenges. Using long reads, we assemble the hairpin telomeres of the linear...

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