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<p>In <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics" title="Bioinformatics">bioinformatics</a>, <b>sequence assembly</b> refers to <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_alignment" title="Sequence alignment">aligning</a> and merging fragments of a much longer <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA" title="DNA">DNA</a> sequence in order to reconstruct the original sequence. This is needed as 