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PacBio Technology Assemblers

Hello,

I need to know the assemblers using PacBio technology like HGAP.

Do you know other friends?

Thank you for your reply

assembly pacbio long-reads

Thank you for your reply.

Do you have a reference (article) on the Falcon?

And AHA (A Hybrid Assembler) and ALLORA (A Long Read Assembler)? do they use PacBio technology? do I have references conserant these two assemblers because I did not find it, if you have.

Thank you

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This topic is 2 years old. I am wondering if there are new softwares nowadays and any benchmark ?

For example Celera and/or Falcon. Note that by default HGAP uses Celera for assembly step.

Large Genome Assembly with PacBio Long Reads

PacBio-only

  • HGAP
  • HBAR-DTK
  • Falcon
  • PBcR self-correction
  • Celera® Assembler
  • Sprai

Hybrid

  • pacBioToCA
  • ECTools
  • Spades
  • Cerulean

Gap Filling

  • PBJelly 2

Scaffolding

  • AHA
  • PBJelly 2

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