Gfastar: a tool suite to assist genome assembly

This session is part of Biodiversity Genomics Academy 2023

Session Leader(s)

Giulio Formenti
Research Assistant Professor, The Rockefeller University

Cassidy Johnson
Graduate Fellow, The Rockefeller University

Jack Medico Graduate Fellow, The Rockefeller University

Description

By the end of this session you will be able to:

1. Compute genome assembly summary statistics using gfastats
2. Manipulate genome assembly graphs using gfastats
3. Compute QV estimates using kreeq
4. Evaluate genome assemblies at scale using Buttercup

Prerequisites

1. Understanding basic terms in genome assembly, such as reads, contigs, scaffolds, ...
2. Basic command line experience.

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