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Supernova: generates phased, whole-genome de novo assemblies from a Chromium-prepared library.

Jit — Sun, 31 May 2020 01:59:30 -0500

Supernova generates phased, whole-genome de novo assemblies from a Chromium-prepared library.

Please see Achieving Success with De Novo Assembly and System Requirements before creating your Chromium libraries for assembly.

Supernova should be run using 38-56x coverage of the genome.
• Somewhat higher coverage is sometimes advantageous.
• Supernova will exit if it finds that coverage is far from the recommended range.
• Note that at most 2.14 billion reads are allowed.
• Please note that we have not extensively tested genomes larger than human, and any genome above approximately 4 GB should be considered experimental and is not supported.

Address of the bookmark: https://support.10xgenomics.com/de-novo-assembly/software/pipelines/latest/using/running

auN: a new metric to measure assembly contiguity

Jit — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 01:18:47 -0500

Given a de novo assembly, we often measure the “average” contig length by N50. N50 is neither the real average nor median. It is the length of the contig such that this and longer contigs cover at least 50% of the assembly. A longer N50 indicates better contiguity. We can similarly define Nx such that contigs no shorter than Nx covers x% of the assembly. The Nx curve plots Nx as a function of x, where x is ranged from 0 to 100.

Address of the bookmark: https://lh3.github.io/2020/04/08/a-new-metric-on-assembly-contiguity

REAPR: a universal tool for genome assembly evaluation

Jitendra Prajapati — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:26:31 -0500

REAPR is a tool that evaluates the accuracy of a genome assembly using mapped paired end reads, without the use of a reference genome for comparison. It can be used in any stage of an assembly pipeline to automatically break incorrect scaffolds and flag other errors in an assembly for manual inspection. It reports mis-assemblies and other warnings, and produces a new broken assembly based on the error calls.

The software requires as input an assembly in FASTA format and paired reads mapped to the assembly in a BAM file. Mapping information such as the fragment coverage and insert size distribution is analysed to locate mis-assemblies. REAPR works best using mapped read pairs from a large insert library (at least 1000bp). Additionally, if a short insert Illumina library is also available, REAPR can combine this with the large insert library in order to score each base of the assembly.

http://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/tools/reapr

Address of the bookmark: https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/gb-2013-14-5-r47

A Post-assembly genome-improvement toolkit (PAGIT) to obtain annotated genomes from contigs

Abhimanyu Singh — Fri, 12 May 2017 10:50:29 -0500

PAGIT addresses the need for software to generate high quality draft genomes. It is based on a series of programs that we developed:

ABACAS, that is able to contiguate contigs from a de novo assembly against a closely related reference.

IMAGE, an iterative approach for closing gaps in assembled genomes using mate pair information. It is able to close gaps left open by the assembler in a draft genome, even when using the same data sets as used by the original assembler.

iCORN, that enables errors in the consensus sequence to be corrected by iteratively mapping reads to the current assembly. An improved version, especially correction Pacfic Bioscience assemblies (PacBio) can be found here.

RATT, a tool to transfer the annotation from a reference genome, or an earlier assembly, onto the latest assembly.

PAGIT bundles these software and makes them more accessible for users.

Address of the bookmark: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/tools/pagit

HINGE: Long-Read Assembly Achieves Optimal Repeat Resolution

Jit — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 09:40:22 -0600

Software accompanying "HINGE: Long-Read Assembly Achieves Optimal Repeat Resolution"

Preprint: http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/08/01/062117
Paper: http://genome.cshlp.org/content/27/5/747.full
An ipython notebook to reproduce results in the paper can be found in this repository.

HINGE is an OLC(Overlap-Layout-Consensus) assembler. The idea of the pipeline is shown below.

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/HingeAssembler/HINGE

EvidentialGene: tr2aacds, mRNA Transcript Assembly Software

Rahul Nayak — Tue, 08 May 2018 04:39:39 -0500

EvidentialGene is a genome informatics project, "Evidence Directed Gene Construction for Eukaryotes", to construct high quality, accurate gene sets for animals and plants, developed by Don Gilbert at Indiana University, see
http://arthropods.eugenes.org/EvidentialGene/

Construction refers to the combination of classical gene prediction, and more recent gene assembly (de-novo and genome-assisted) methods. The basic Evigene methods involve using available best-of-breed gene prediction and assembly software, combining all evidence for genes, from expressed sequences, genome assembly sequences, related species protein sequences, and any other, to annotate and score gene constructions. Over-produced constructions are classified by gene evidence for best qualities per "locus", including genome-aligned and gene-transcript aligned (genome-free) locus identification. All software developed for EvidentialGene is publicly available. See project wiki/blog for notes.

Download

http://arthropods.eugenes.org/EvidentialGene/trassembly.html

https://sourceforge.net/p/evidentialgene/blog/

Address of the bookmark: http://arthropods.eugenes.org/EvidentialGene/trassembly.html

CLAW: Chloroplast Long-read Assembly Workflow

LEGE — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 12:37:46 -0600

CLAW (Chloroplast Long-read Assembly Workflow) is an mostly-automated Snakemake-based workflow for the assembly of chloroplast genomes. CLAW uses chloroplast long-reads, which are baited out of larger read libraries (e.g., an Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION read library derived from photosynthetic tissue), for assembly with Flye and/or Unicycler. CLAW was designed with the novice bioinformatician in mind - it is easy to install and easy to use, requiring only minimal user input.

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/aaronphillips7493/CLAW

Blobsplorer

Jit — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 10:28:58 -0500

Blobsplorer is a tool for interactive visualization of assembled DNA sequence data ("contigs") derived from (often unintentionally) mixed-species pools. It allows the simultaneous display of GC content, coverage, and taxonomic annotation for collections of contigs with a view to separating out those belonging to different taxa.

Blobsplorer is unlikely to be of use on its own as it requires contig data to be supplied in a format that involves considerable preprocessing (see below for a description). The easiest way to use Blobsplorer is as part of a workflow using scripts from here.

Address of the bookmark: http://nematodes.org/martin/blobsplorer/blobsplorer.html

CAT/BAT: tool for taxonomic classification of contigs and metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs)

Jit — Mon, 18 May 2020 10:53:32 -0500

Contig Annotation Tool (CAT) and Bin Annotation Tool (BAT) are pipelines for the taxonomic classification of long DNA sequences and metagenome assembled genomes (MAGs/bins) of both known and (highly) unknown microorganisms, as generated by contemporary metagenomics studies. The core algorithm of both programs involves gene calling, mapping of predicted ORFs against the nr protein database, and voting-based classification of the entire contig / MAG based on classification of the individual ORFs. CAT and BAT can be run from intermediate steps if files are formated appropriately (see Usage).

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/dutilh/CAT

lordFAST: sensitive and Fast Alignment Search Tool for LOng noisy Read sequencing Data

BioJoker — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 04:43:57 -0600

lordFAST is a sensitive tool for mapping long reads with high error rates. lordFAST is specially designed for aligning reads from PacBio sequencing technology but provides the user the ability to change alignment parameters depending on the reads and application.

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