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Because of repetitive regions of genomes and some other factors, assembly of very short reads is still a challenging issue.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>A novel strategy for improving genome assembly from very short reads is proposed. It can increase accuracies of assemblies by integrating <jats:italic>de novo<\/jats:italic> contigs, and produce comparative contigs by allowing multiple references without limiting to genomes of closely related strains. Comparative contigs are used to scaffold <jats:italic>de novo<\/jats:italic> contigs. Using simulated and real datasets, it is shown that our strategy can effectively improve qualities of assemblies of isolated microbial genomes and metagenomes.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>With more and more reference genomes available, our strategy will be useful to improve qualities of genome assemblies from very short reads. 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