Taipan 20090515 – Fast Hybrid Short-read Assembly tool

Taipan 20090515

:: DESCRIPTION

Taipan is an assembly algorithm which can be viewed as a hybrid of these two approaches. Taipan uses greedy extensions for contig construction but at each step realizes enough of the corresponding read graph to make better decisions as to how assembly should continue. We show that this approach can achieve an assembly quality at least as good as the graph-based approaches used in the popular Edena and Velvet assembly tools using a moderate amount of computing resources.

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::DEVELOPER

Parallel and Distributed Architectures

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/A

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Linux
  • C Compiler

:: DOWNLOAD

 Taipan

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation

Bertil Schmidt, Ranjan Sinha, Bryan Beresford-Smith, Simon J. Puglisi:
“A Fast Hybrid Short Read Fragment Assembly Algorithm“.
Bioinformatics, 2009, 25(17): 2279-2280