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QUAST

Description

quast website

QUAST stands for QUality ASsessment Tool. The tool evaluates genome assemblies by computing various metrics. This document provides instructions for the general QUAST tool for genome assemblies, MetaQUAST, the extension for metagenomic datasets, and Icarus, interactive visualizer for these tools.

Environment Modules

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

Environment Variables

  • HPC_QUAST_DIR - installation directory
  • HPC_QUAST_BIN - executable directory

Citation

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

QUAST paper is available at Bioinformatics Advance Access http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/btt086?ijkey=Kzq9lhMayiqecq9&keytype=ref

Categories

biology, ngs, sequencing, rna-seq