 length of only 36 bases, making it less suitable for de novo assembly (such as <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_novo_transcriptome_assembly" title="De novo transcriptome assembly">de novo transcriptome assembly</a>), but newer iterations of the technology achieve read lengths above 100 bases from both ends of a 3-400bp clone. Announced at the end of 2007, the SHARCGS assembler<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span>[</span>5<span>]</span></a></sup> by Dohm et al. was the firs