What are reads, contigs and scaffold?

If you are a beginner in the area of genomics where you deal with genes, genomes and transcriptomes, and their assemblies, then you might have come across terms like reads, contigs, and scaffolds. This short video will make it easy for you to understand these terms easily.

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