Grab the data here:
curl -O https://s3.amazonaws.com/public.ged.msu.edu/ecoli_ref-5m.fastq.gz
Subset it like so:
gunzip -c ecoli_ref-5m.fastq.gz | head -4000000 | gzip -9c > ecoli_ref-1m.fastq.gz
gunzip -c ecoli_ref-5m.fastq.gz | head -2000000 | gzip -9c > ecoli_ref-500k.fastq.gz
Grab the E. coli genome:
curl -O https://s3.amazonaws.com/public.ged.msu.edu/ecoliMG1655.fa.gz
gunzip ecoliMG1655.fa.gz
Install QUAST (http://bioinf.spbau.ru/quast) somewhere, edit Makefile appropriately.
Build MEGAHIT (https://github.com/voutcn/megahit/) somewhere, edit Makefile appropriately.
Install SPAdes (http://bioinf.spbau.ru/spades) somewhere, edit Makefile appropriately.
Run 'make all'.
The Makefile is under the BSD license; please see the LICENSE file.