Roach MJ, Schmidt SA, Borneman AR.

BMC Bioinformatics. 2018 Nov 29;19(1):460. doi:10.1186/s12859-018-2485-7

Purge Haplotigs: allelic contig reassignment for third-gen diploid genome assemblies.

Aligns the reads to the draft genome in order to estimate coverage. A bimodal distribution is expected: the 0.5× peak represents areas where both alleles are present in the assembly.