This commentary is a continuation of previous one. We are adding some additional information in case...

Our earlier commentary on SOAPdenovo2 provided a quick overview of an assembly. In the next few comm...

Opening the zip file: The zip file ‘SOAPdenovo2.zip’ expanded into two programs - i) pregraph_sparse...

N50 statistic is widely used by bioinformaticians to judge the quality of their assemblies, but it i...

There is a long list of options/flags/parameters for a newbler assembly, some of which have been tre...

This post is about how to start up newbler for de novo assembly projects. I will describe setting up...

The files that are the topic of this post are all tables, i.e. tab separated text files. The ‘status...

In the post on what is new in newbler version 2.6, I introduced the -scaffold option. Briefly, with ...

Sometimes you might observe very short contigs, some even having high read depth. You might see thes...

The files most people are after when they do an assembly must be these: the actual contig and scaffo...