lordFAST, a novel long-read mapper that is specifically designed to align reads generated by PacBio and potentially other SMS technologies to a reference. lordFAST not only has higher sensitivity than the available alternatives, it is also among the fastest and has a very low memory footprint.

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/vpc-ccg/lordfast

RaGOO is a tool for coalescing genome assembly contigs into pseudochromosomes via minimap2 alignments to a closely related reference genome. The focus of this tool is on practicality and therefore has the following features:

1. Good performance. On a MacBook Pro using Arabidopsis data, pseudochromosome construction takes less than a minute and the whole pipeline with SV calling takes ~2 minutes.
2. Intact ordering and orienting of contigs.
3. Misassembly correction
4. GFF lift-over
5. Structural variant calling with and integrated version of Assemblytics
6. Confidence scores associated with the grouping, localization, and orientation for each contig.

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/malonge/RaGOO

Relying on unique software architecture, PLAST takes full advantage of recent multi-core personal computers without requiring any additional hardware devices.

PLAST stands for Parallel Local Sequence Alignment Search Tool and is was published in BMC Bioinformatics.

PLAST is a general purpose sequence comparison tool providing the following benefits:

• PLAST is a high-performance sequence comparison tool designed to compare two sets of sequences (query vs. reference),
• Reduces the processing time of sequences comparisons while providing highest quality results,
• Contains a fully integrated data filtering engine capable of selecting relevant hits with user-defined criteria (E-Value, identity, coverage, alignment length, etc.),
• Does not require any additional hardware, since it is a software solution. It is easy to install, cost-effective, takes full advantage of multi-core processors and uses a small RAM footprint,
• Ready to be used on desktop computer, cluster, cloud as well as within distributed system running Hadoop.

https://plast.inria.fr/

Address of the bookmark: https://plast.inria.fr/

The MMseqs2 user guide is available as Github Wiki or as PDF file (Thanks to pandoc!)

Please cite: Steinegger M and Soeding J. MMseqs2 enables sensitive protein sequence searching for the analysis of massive data sets. Nature Biotechnology, doi: 10.1038/nbt.3988 (2017).

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/soedinglab/MMseqs2

Features

• Very accurate results (Martin et al., WhatsHap: fast and accurate read-based phasing)
• Works well with Illumina, PacBio, Oxford Nanopore and other types of reads
• It phases SNVs, indels and even “complex” variants (such as TCG → AGAA)
• Pedigree phasing mode uses reads from related individuals (such as trios) to improve results and to reduce coverage requirements (Garg et al., Read-Based Phasing of Related Individuals).
• WhatsHap is easy to install
• It is easy to use: Pass in a VCF and one or more BAM files, get out a phased VCF. Supports multi-sample VCFs.
• It produces standard-compliant VCF output by default
• If desired, get output that is compatible with ReadBackedPhasing
• Open Source (MIT license)

Address of the bookmark: https://whatshap.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Address of the bookmark: http://www.seqan.de/apps/stellar/

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/baoe/flas

• Project name: SeQuiLa-cov

• Project home page: http://biodatageeks.org/sequila/

• Source code repository: https://github.com/ZSI-Bio/bdg-sequila

• Operating system: Platform independent

• Programming language: Scala

• Other requirements: Docker

• License: Apache License 2.0

Address of the bookmark: https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/article/8/8/giz094/5543653

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/soedinglab/MMseqs2

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/COMBINE-lab/pufferfish/tree/cigar-strings