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Shotgun sequencing could be better explained than "statistical shenanigans": imagine blasting a huge collection of identical long strings with a shotgun, each
by jjtheblunt 3y ago
Shotgun sequencing could be better explained than "statistical shenanigans": imagine blasting a huge collection of identical long strings with a shotgun, each breaking into different fragments, and realizing overlaps in the fragments, collectively, can be enough to uniquely restore one copy of the original string.