Introduction

Velvet is a de novo genomic assembler specially designed for short read sequencing technologies, such as Solexa or 454, developed by Daniel Zerbino and Ewan Birney at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). Data in multiple libraries can be used at the same time.

For more information, visit the official Velvet website.

Programming language: C

Brief description: A common genome assembly software, which is used to process second-generation sequencing data and has good assembly integrity.

Open source license: GPL 3.0