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Small Genome Mapping Assembly

Hi,

Can anyone suggest me a good small genome assembly with reference. My sequence are produced from sanger sequencing.

Thanks,

N.

genome assembly mapping

What kind of genome ?

It's a virus genome so it's very small ~10kb

I assume you mean "assembler" not "assembly"? And by "reference" you mean literature, not a reference genome?

Yes assembler sorry. And by reference I mean reference genome

5 answers

I suggest MIRA.

You could try Consed in http://www.phrap.org/phredphrapconsed.html . This tool was used during the SRAS outbreak: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/300/5624/1399.long

You can try Edena, it is very accurate and easy to use (you dont have tons of tools to install). And the developer is very nice :)

The AMOS package is really great for most things. Your question also depends on the chemistry you are using.

454 - Newbler continues to be the best at 454. Also, AMOScmp.

Illumina - Use Nesoni which is a nice wrapper around SHRiMP. Also, AMOScmp-shortReads

This is a program we have developed at the CVR for assembling viral genomes: http://bioinformatics.cvr.ac.uk/Tanoti/index.php

It is specifically designed to map as many reads as possible and allows for quite a lot of variation relative to the reference.

Are your sequences in fastq format?

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