Genomer--a Swiss army knife for genome scaffolding

PLoS One. 2013 Jun 24;8(6):e66922. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066922. Print 2013.

Abstract

The increasing accessibility and reduced costs of sequencing has made genome analysis accessible to more and more researchers. Yet there remains a steep learning curve in the subsequent computational steps required to process raw reads into a database-deposited genome sequence. Here we describe "Genomer," a tool to simplify the manual tasks of finishing and uploading a genome sequence to a database. Genomer can format a genome scaffold into the common files required for submission to GenBank. This software also simplifies updating a genome scaffold by allowing a human-readable YAML format file to be edited instead of large sequence files. Genomer is written as a command line tool and is an effort to make the manual process of genome scaffolding more robust and reproducible. Extensive documentation and video tutorials are available at http://next.gs.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Base Sequence
  • Computational Biology / methods*
  • Genome, Human / genetics*
  • Humans
  • Molecular Sequence Annotation
  • Software*