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List of tools frequently used while genome assembly:

I have used the following assemblers

• Spades (v. 3.10.1)
• CANU (v. 1.6)
• Unicycler (v. v0.4.1)
• Miniasm (v. 0.2-r137-dirty)

I have used the following mappers

• minimap2 (v. 2.0rc1-r232)
• minimap (v. 0.2-r124-dirty)
• bwa (v. 0.7.12-r1039)

I have used the following polishing tools

• Racon (v. not available)
• Pilon (v. 1.18)
• Nanopolish (v. 0.8.3)

I have used the following tools to assess genome assembly characteristics

• ANI.pl (https://github.com/chjp/ANI)
• CheckM (v. 1.0.7)
• Prokka (v. 1.12)
• QUAST (v. 2.3)
• mummer (v. not available)

If you have any ideas or superior tools we have missed please let us know in the comments.