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RNFtools manual

This is the manual of RNFtools which is an associate software package for Read Naming Format (RNF), a generic format for naming simulated Next-Generation Sequencing reads.

RNFtools can be used for simulation of NGS reads, evaluation of mappers, and conversion of RNF-compliant data.

Publication

11. Břinda, V. Boeva, G. Kucherov. RNF: a general framework to evaluate NGS read mappers. Bioinformatics 32(1), pp. 136-139, 2016. [doi:`10.1093/bioinformatics/btv524`_]

Links

Project webpage -RNF specification -GitHub repository -Bug reporting -Mailing list -Contact

Table of contents

introduction

Introduction to RNFtools.

tutorial

Tutorials demonstrating installation and basic usage of RNFtools.

reference

Automatically generated documentation for RNFtools (including CLI variant rnftools).

other_information

FAQs, supplementary information about RNFtools, information about state-of-the-art read simulators.

getting_started tutorial reference other_information