curtain

Assembling large genomes from short read sequences

Curtain is an assembler of next generation sequence, developed by Matthias Haimel in the Ensembl Genomes team at the EBI. Curtain is a Java wrapper around next-generation assemblers such as Velvet, which allows the incremental introduction of read-pair information into the assembly process. This enables the assembly of larger genomes than would otherwise be possible within existing memory constraints.

Curtain is available under the Apache 2 license. We would be very interested to learn if you are using curtain in your project, and what your experiences are.

Announcements about updates and changes to the code will be announce through the google group curtain-assembler

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genome-assembly EBI java velvet sequence assembly Bioinformatics