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 ## Transfuse
 
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 Transfuse intelligently merges your multiple de novo transcriptome assemblies. Run multiple assemblies with different de novo assemblers, or different settings in the same assembler and have them combined into a single high quality transcriptome.
 
 Transfuse takes in the reads you used to do the assembly and a list of fasta files and produces a single output fasta file.