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TheBGAcademy 2024: Gfastar: a tool suite to assist genome assembly

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Gfastar: a tool suite to assist genome assembly

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This session is part of Biodiversity Genomics Academy 2024

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Session Leader(s)

Giulio Formenti
Research Assistant Professor, The Rockefeller University

Cassidy Johnson
Graduate Fellow, The Rockefeller University

Jack Medico Graduate Fellow, The Rockefeller University

Description

By the end of this session you will be able to:

  1. Compute genome assembly summary statistics using gfastats
  2. Manipulate genome assembly graphs using gfastats
  3. Compute QV estimates using kreeq
  4. Evaluate genome assemblies at scale using Buttercup

Prerequisites

  1. Understanding basic terms in genome assembly, such as reads, contigs, scaffolds, ...
  2. Basic command line experience.

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You will get the most out of this session if you meet the prerequisites above.

Please also read the description carefully to see if this session is relevant to you.

If you don't meet the prerequisites or change your mind based on the description or are no longer available at the session time, please email tol-training at sanger.ac.uk to cancel your slot so that someone else on the waitlist might attend.