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PILON

Description

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Pilon is a software tool that automatically improves draft assemblies and finds variation among strains, including large event detection. Note: export _JAVA_OPTIONS="-Xmx?g" where ? equals to the available memory.

Environment Modules

Run module spider pilon to find out what environment modules are available for this application.

Environment Variables

  • HPC_PILON_DIR - installation directory
  • HPC_PILON_BIN - executable directory
  • HPC_PILON_DOC - documentation directory

Citation

If you publish research that uses pilon you have to cite it as follows:

Bruce J. Walker, Thomas Abeel, Terrance Shea, Margaret Priest, Amr Abouelliel, Sharadha Sakthikumar, Christina A. Cuomo, Qiandong Zeng, Jennifer Wortman, Sarah K. Young, Ashlee M. Earl (2014) Pilon: An Integrated Tool for Comprehensive Microbial Variant Detection and Genome Assembly Improvement. PLoS ONE 9(11): e112963. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0112963

Categories

biology, ngs, phylogenetics