Archive For July 30, 2018

Velvet is a hash-based deBrujin assembler. I occasionally use it to build contigs from short read RNAseq data, although it can be used for long reads, metagenomics, etc. To install, just download, extract and make. There are two parts to the program: 1. velveth – prepare the sequences 2. velvetg – build the graph and…

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GMAP is an old (circa 2006) software for long read alignment. Its use case is for mapping RNA reads back to a genome. It has found new life in the world of long read RNAseq such as from Pacbio reads. Perhaps because of its age and architecture, it has some quirks and dependencies that seem…

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