Plass & Penguin Release Notes

First release of Penguin, a metagenomic assembler that assembles DNA/RNA through a novel greedy AA/DNA-hybrid bayesian overlap extension strategy.

New Features and Enhancements

First release of Penguin: We generate now two binaries, plass and penguin. Plass assembles protein sequences from DNA while Penguin assembles DNA contigs. Penguin comes in two variants penguin guided_nuclassemble, which first assembles using AA six-framed-translated overlaps and then further assemble the contigs using nucleotide information and a pure nucleotide assembler penguin nuclassemble.
Compatibility and Portability: Thanks to simde Plass and Penguin now run on ARM (including Apple Silicon) and POWERPC.