TandemTools

Description

TandemTools package includes TandemQUAST tool for evaluating and improving assemblies of extra-long tandem repeats (ETR) and TandemMapper tool for mapping long error-prone reads to ETRs.

Note: TandemTools is designed specifically for ETR (range in length from hundreds of thousands to millions of nucleotides). It is strongly not recommended to run TandemTools on shorter TRs.

Availability

TandemTools package is available on the GitHub.

Contact

In case of any questions, suggestions, bug reports, please write directly to Alla Mikheenko.

 

Publications

  2. Alla Mikheenko , Andrey V Bzikadze, Alexey Gurevich , Karen H Miga, Pavel A Pevzner TandemTools: mapping long reads and assessing/improving assembly quality in extra-long tandem repeats (talk), 2020