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# BlobTools

> **Once we were blobs in the sea...**
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> -*Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky*

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A modular command-line solution for visualisation, quality control and taxonomic partitioning of genome datasets

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## *De-novo* genome projects

[BlobTools Workflow A](https://blobtools.readme.io/docs/the-blobtools-workflows#section-summary)

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## Genome re-sequencing projects

[BlobTools Workflow B](https://blobtools.readme.io/docs/the-blobtools-workflows#section-summary)

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