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 # ASSU
 
-_ASSU_ (ASSemblig SSU) is a command line tool written in [Bash](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/) to carry out the reference-guided assembly of small subunit (SSU) 16S ribosomal ribonucleic acid (rRNA) using short high-throughput sequencing (HTS) reads derived from whole genome sequencing of bacteria or archaea strains. 
+_ASSU_ (ASSembling SSU) is a command line tool written in [Bash](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/) to carry out the reference-guided assembly of small subunit (SSU) 16S ribosomal ribonucleic acid (rRNA) using short high-throughput sequencing (HTS) reads derived from whole genome sequencing of bacteria or archaea strains. 
 
 This tool was developed to compensate the failure of several _de novo_ assembly programs to assemble a non-fragmented SSU segment when the sequenced genome contains different 16S rRNA copies with sequence variation, especially when using short HTS reads.