Assemblathon 2: evaluating de novo methods of genome assembly
http://www.gigasciencejournal.com/content/2/1/10/abstract
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2013/07/genome-assembly-contest-prompts-soul-searching.html
http://assemblathon.org/post/44431915644/feedback-and-analysis-of-the-assemblathon-2-p
Genome assembly in minutes: Deciphering the ‘book of life’ with supercomputers http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/06/150601092101.htm
Canu Assembler is my personal favourate.
Canu is a fork of the Celera Assembler, designed for high-noise single-molecule sequencing (such as the PacBio RS II/Sequelor Oxford Nanopore MinION).