Output the contig overlap graph in GFA format

[sjackman]

Graphical Fragment Assembly (GFA) format describes the contig overlap graph of a genome sequence assembly. Bandage can be used to visualize this graph. The format specification was originally drafted by Heng Li and is now community-maintained and nearing completeness. The format allows optional fields similarly to the SAM spec.

[bjclavijo]

Hi Shaun, I am working on this, it is actually quite helpful to use GFA as an exchange format. Next updated version (quite soon, I hope) will have some GFA support, even if not perfect.

[bjclavijo]

Leaving this open till the support is on the main branch and tested...

[sjackman]

That's great! Thanks, Bernardo. I'm excited to see more interoperability between assembler pipelines.

[bjclavijo]

This functionality is provided by hbv2gfa in older branches and will be provided directly in the next release.