Minia is a short-read assembler based on a de Bruijn graph, capable of assembling a human genome on a desktop computer in a day. The output of Minia is a set of contigs. Minia produces results of similar contiguity and accuracy to other de Bruijn assemblers (e.g. Velvet).
Reference
R. Chikhi, G. Rizk. (2013) Space-efficient and exact de Bruijn graph representation based on a Bloom filter, Algorithms for Molecular Biology 8:22
Ready-to-use executable
Minia is available as a binary for immediate use on Linux and MacOSX platforms, with the following requirements:
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MacOS-X 10.9 or above. (Intel 64bit processors) |
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Linux running on Intel or AMD 64bit processors. (kernel 2.6.32 or above, GLIBCXX_3.4.13 or above) |
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For all other platforms or configurations, or if above binaries fail to run on your computer, you should download source code and compile it.
Source Code
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Minia tool is fully written in C++. | Download |
Documentation
The user manual is here.
Other documents are available here.
License
Minia binaries and source code are covered by the Affero GPL version 3 license.
