Bloocoo

Bloocoo is a k-mer spectrum-based read error corrector, designed to correct large datasets with a very low memory footprint. It uses the disk streaming k-mer counting algorithm contained in the GATB library, and inserts solid k-mers in a bloom-filter. The correction procedure is similar to the Musket multistage approach.  Bloocoo yields similar results while requiring far less memory: as an example, it can correct whole human genome re-sequencing reads at 70 x coverage with less than 4GB of memory.

Reference

G. Benoit, D. Lavenier, C. Lemaitre, G. Rizk.  (2015) Bloocoo, a memory efficient read corrector. Inria-HAL.

Ready-to-use executable

Bloocoo is available as a binary for immediate use on Linux and MacOSX platforms, with the following requirements:

maclogo MacOS-X 10.9 or above.
(Intel 64bit processors)
Download
linuxlogo Linux running on Intel or AMD 64bit processors.
(kernel 2.6.32 or above, GLIBCXX_3.4.13 or above)
Download

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

cpp-logo Bloocoo tool is fully written in C++. Download

Documentation

Available here.

License

Bloocoo binaries and source code are covered by the Affero GPL version 3 license.

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