Introduction

MetaVelvet is a de novo genomic assembler specially designed for short read sequencing technologies, such as Solexa or 454. The fundamental ideas of MetaVelvet are first decomposing de Bruijn graph constructed from mixed short reads into individual sub-graphs and second building scaffolds based on every decomposed de Bruijn sub-graph as isolated species genome. MetaVelvet has been proven to generate assemblies of longer N50 and higher quality than Velvet when applied to metagenomic sequences, and recognized as one of frequently-used metagenomic assemblers in this research community.

For more information, visit the MetaVelvet official website.

Programming language: C

Brief description: A de novo genomic assembler specially designed for short read sequencing technologies.

Open source license: GPL 3.0