ABySS
Assembly By Short Sequences - a de novo, parallel, paired-end sequence assembler
Current release
ABySS 1.2.2
Released Aug 25, 2010
Merge contigs after popping bubbles. Handle multi-line FASTA sequences. Report the amount of memory used.
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Project Description
ABySS is a de novo, parallel, paired-end sequence assembler that is designed for short reads. The single-processor version is useful for assembling genomes up to 100 Mbases in size. The parallel version is implemented using MPI and is capable of assembling larger genomes.
Publications
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ABySS: A parallel assembler for short read sequence data. Simpson JT, Wong K, Jackman SD, Schein JE, Jones SJ, Birol I. Genome Research, 2009-June. (Genome Research, PubMed)
- De novo Transcriptome Assembly with ABySS. İnanç Birol, Shaun D Jackman, Cydney Nielsen, Jenny Q Qian, Richard Varhol, Greg
Stazyk, Ryan D Morin, Yongjun Zhao, Martin Hirst, Jacqueline E Schein, Doug E Horsman, Joseph M Connors, Randy D Gascoyne, Marco A Marra and Steven JM Jones. Bioinformatics. 2009-June. (Bioinformatics Advance Access)
