Many of the Perl scripts require that the VCF files are compressed by bgzip and indexed by tabix (both tools are part of the tabix package, available for download here). The VCF files can be compressed and indexed using the following commands

bgzip my_file.vcf
tabix -p vcf my_file.vcf.gz

http://vcftools.sourceforge.net/perl_module.html

Address of the bookmark: http://vcftools.sourceforge.net/perl_module.html

Awards of $5 million to four grantees have been made in fiscal year 2013 under the Genomic Sequencing and Newborn Screening Disorders research program. The program will be funded at $25 million over five years, as funds are made available.

"Hundreds of US babies will be pioneers in genomic medicine through a US$25-million programme to sequence their genomes soon after they are born."

Source:

http://blogs.nature.com/news/2013/09/scientists-to-sequence-hundreds-of-newborns-genomes.html

http://www.genome.gov/27554919

https://gold.jgi.doe.gov/

Address of the bookmark: https://gold.jgi.doe.gov/

Local installation:

You can install Ribbon locally from Github by following the instructions here: https://github.com/MariaNattestad/Ribbon

Address of the bookmark: http://genomeribbon.com/

See http://mash.readthedocs.org for more information.

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/marbl/Mash/releases

Address of the bookmark: https://mummer4.github.io/

Genome assembly projects typically run multiple algorithms in an attempt to find the single best assembly, although those assemblies often have complementary, if untapped, strengths and weaknesses. We present our metassembler algorithm that merges multiple assemblies of a genome into a single superior sequence. 

Address of the bookmark: https://sourceforge.net/projects/metassembler/?source=directory

➜ bloomfilter git:(master) ✗ swig -Wall -c++ -perl5 BloomFilter.i
➜ bloomfilter git:(master) ✗ g++ -c BloomFilter_wrap.cxx -I/home/urbe/anaconda3/lib/perl5/5.22.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/CORE/ -fPIC -Dbool=char -O3
BloomFilter_wrap.cxx:1892:30: fatal error: ../BloomFilter.hpp: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
➜ bloomfilter git:(master) ✗ cd swig
➜ swig git:(master) ✗ g++ -c BloomFilter_wrap.cxx -I/home/urbe/anaconda3/lib/perl5/5.22.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/CORE/ -fPIC -Dbool=char -O3
In file included from BloomFilter_wrap.cxx:1877:0:
../BloomFilter.hpp: In member function ‘void BloomFilter::loadHeader(FILE*)’:
../BloomFilter.hpp:141:59: warning: ignoring return value of ‘size_t fread(void*, size_t, size_t, FILE*)’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]
fread(&header, sizeof(struct FileHeader), 1, file);
^
➜ swig git:(master) ✗ g++ -Wall -shared BloomFilter_wrap.o -o BloomFilter.so -O3
➜ swig git:(master) ✗ cd ..
➜ bloomfilter git:(master) ✗ cd ..
➜ lib git:(master) ✗ cd ..
➜ bin git:(master) ✗ ./LINKS
Usage: ./LINKS [v1.8.6]
-f sequences to scaffold (Multi-FASTA format, required)
-s file-of-filenames, full path to long sequence reads or MPET pairs [see below] (Multi-FASTA/fastq format, required)
-m MPET reads (default -m 1 = yes, default = no, optional)
! DO NOT SET IF NOT USING MPET. WHEN SET, LINKS WILL EXPECT A SPECIAL FORMAT UNDER -s
! Paired MPET reads in their original outward orientation <- -> must be separated by ":"
>template_name
ACGACACTATGCATAAGCAGACGAGCAGCGACGCAGCACG:ATATATAGCGCACGACGCAGCACAGCAGCAGACGAC
-d distance between k-mer pairs (ie. target distances to re-scaffold on. default -d 4000, optional)
Multiple distances are separated by comma. eg. -d 500,1000,2000,3000
-k k-mer value (default -k 15, optional)
-t step of sliding window when extracting k-mer pairs from long reads (default -t 2, optional)
Multiple steps are separated by comma. eg. -t 10,5
-o offset position for extracting k-mer pairs (default -o 0, optional)
-e error (%) allowed on -d distance e.g. -e 0.1 == distance +/- 10% (default -e 0.1, optional)
-l minimum number of links (k-mer pairs) to compute scaffold (default -l 5, optional)
-a maximum link ratio between two best contig pairs (default -a 0.3, optional)
*higher values lead to least accurate scaffolding*
-z minimum contig length to consider for scaffolding (default -z 500, optional)
-b base name for your output files (optional)
-r Bloom filter input file for sequences supplied in -s (optional, if none provided will output to .bloom)
NOTE: BLOOM FILTER MUST BE DERIVED FROM THE SAME FILE SUPPLIED IN -f WITH SAME -k VALUE
IF YOU DO NOT SUPPLY A BLOOM FILTER, ONE WILL BE CREATED (.bloom)
-p Bloom filter false positive rate (default -p 0.001, optional; increase to prevent memory allocation errors)
-x Turn off Bloom filter functionality (-x 1 = yes, default = no, optional)
-v Runs in verbose mode (-v 1 = yes, default = no, optional)

Error: Missing mandatory options -f and -s.

ERROR fixed

perl: symbol lookup error: /home/urbe/Tools/LINKS_new/bin/./lib/bloomfilter/swig/BloomFilter.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr

java -Xms2G -Xmx4G -jar GenomeFinisher.jar  \
    -i target_contigs.fasta  \
    -ds alternative_assemblies.fasta -ref reference.fasta  \
    -o outputDirectory

Address of the bookmark: http://gfinisher.sourceforge.net