What is the easiest way to see the overlap of pair end sequencing data

Question

[Quak]

I would like to know what is the easiest way to see the overlap of pair end sequencing data. what are packages I can use to get some overal statistic of the pair end data.

Answer 1

[Istvan Albert]

Flash will give you the merged and unmerged reads and (if I recall this correctly) a read length distribution.