Introduction

SOAPdenovo is a novel short-read assembly method that can build a de novo draft assembly for the human-sized genomes. The software is specially designed to assemble Illumina GA short reads. The new version reduces memory consumption during graph creation, resolves repeats in contig steps, increases the coverage and length of scaffold assembly, and improves gap closure. Therefore, SOAPdenovo is more suitable for large genome assembly.

For more information, visit the official SOAPdenovo website.

Programming language: C/C++

Brief description: software for genome assembly