github.com/broadinstitute/viral-pipelines/simulate_illumina_reads

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) 2026 Open access

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Authors: Broad Viral Genomics
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17772934
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Abstract

Generate synthetic Illumina read sets for testing using wgsim. Takes a space-separated string of colon-separated pairs where each pair consists of a GenBank accession and a coverage value (e.g., 'KJ660346.2:12.5x NC_004296.1:0.9X'), downloads the sequences, and simulates Illumina reads.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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10 June 2026