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Genome Sequencing & Assembly Simulator

Interactive shotgun sequencing simulator: shred a genome into overlapping reads, watch a greedy overlap assembler stitch them into contigs, and see how read length, coverage and sequencing error rate change how completely the genome is reconstructed.

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Genomics research depends on reconstructing a complete genome from thousands of short, randomly-positioned sequencing reads. This simulator shreds a model genome into overlapping fragments the way a real shotgun-sequencing run does, then runs a greedy overlap assembler that merges reads sharing enough matching sequence into contiguous contigs. Read length, coverage, sequencing error rate and the minimum overlap the assembler requires all interact to decide whether the genome comes back as one clean contig or many small fragments — exactly the trade-offs bioinformaticians tune when choosing a sequencing platform and assembly pipeline.

⚙ Under the hood

Simulate shotgun sequencing where reads are shredded from a genome, randomly positioned with errors, and merged into contigs based on overlap thresholds.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install