GATB programming day: summary

On June 15th, 2016, our training room at Inria Rennes welcomed 15 people (researchers, engineers and PhD students in bioinformatics) to attend to our first GATB programming day. Quite a success since our room was fully occupied! During that day, we got into the following topics: a theoretical introducton to…

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GATB-core 1.2.0 released

Get it on Github Release notes Assembly-inspired de Bruijn graph simplifications // removes tips, bubbles and erroneous connections, // similar to some of the algorithms implemented in the SPAdes assembler graph.simplify(); Faster graph traversal can be activated using a single command. // allocates 1 byte/node to precompute adjacency for each…

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GATB programming day – Summer 2016

*Event is now fully booked! Please get in touch with us to pre-book for a future session.* The first GATB programming day will be held at Inria Rennes on coming June 15th. You are interested in learning how to create high-performance NGS data analysis tool? You have good skills in…

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GATB-core on github

A Github repository has been setup to provide a convenient access to GATB-Core softwares. It can be used to get instant access to latest sources as well as official releases. See https://github.com/GATB/gatb-core.

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CAMI Challenge

GATB assembly pipeline entered the 1st CAMI Challenge (Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation). Follow this link to read results evaluation

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Leon published in BMC Bioinformatics

Our new read compression software Leon has been published in BMC Bioinformatics : http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/16/288. Leon is a software to compress Next Generation Sequencing data. It can compress Fasta or Fastq format. The method does not require any reference genome, instead a reference is built de novo from the set of…

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New GATB-CORE version 1.0.6

The new version of the GATB-CORE library 1.0.6 is now available. This version provides: speed up from x2 to x4 for kmer counting and graph construction phases (optimizations based on minimizers and improved Bloom filters). GATB’s k-mer counter has been improved using techniques from KMC2, to achieve competitive running times…

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