Thursday, April 19, 2018

Reporting issues with MaSuRCA on github

MaSuRCA is now on github.  Github has an excellent system for reporting bugs/issues with the software.  I encourage all users of MaSuRCA to utilize this resource and report issues here

https://github.com/alekseyzimin/masurca/issues

Also if you are having a problem, please check the github issues page to see if the problem has been addressed already.

Thursday, April 5, 2018

Tree tobacco plant assembled with MaSuRCA

I am glad to see assemblies of the novel genomes that used MaSuRCA published.  Here is a recent data note published in BMC:
https://bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13104-018-3127-x?utm_source=BMC_mailing&utm_medium=Email_Internal&utm_content=ElaLee-BMC-BMC_Research_Notes-Multidisciplinary-Global&utm_campaign=BMCS_SUB_One_year_Anniversary&sap-outbound-id=6B5458575F38E62CA5FD4B25C94434C6C3ABEBF6

This is an assembly of tree tobacco Nicotiana glauca from Illumina-only data (350bp fragment Paired End library and ~4,000bp fragment mate pair library), that yielded N50 contig size of about 31Kbp.  The assembly size (~3.2Gbp) was bigger than the estimated genome size (~2Gbp) which points to relatively high heterozygosity of the plant.