Bioinformatics
Pierre Marijon, Rayan Chikhi, Jean-Stéphane Varré
Motivation: Genome assembly is increasingly performed on long, uncorrected reads. Assembly quality may be degraded due to unfiltered chimeric reads; also, the storage of all read overlaps can take up to terabytes of disk space.
Results: We introduce two tools: yacrd for chimera removal and read scrubbing, and fpa for filtering out spurious overlaps. We show that yacrd results in higher-quality assemblies and is one hundred times faster than the best available alternative.
Availability and implementation: https://github.com/natir/yacrd and https://github.com/natir/fpa.
Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
More info at: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btz219