New parameters added

quickmerge v0.3 is more accurate and is less sensitive to data formatting issues (no more single line fasta). It also has a new prefix option which can be used to run quickmerge without worrying about new results overwriting the old results.

Quickmerge with more sensitivity and accuracy

In this version of quickmerge, we fixed some minor bugs to make the program more robust to incongruence between the component assemblies. We made a subtle change in the algorithm to markedly increase its sensitivity. With the new quickmerge, 52X Drosophila melanogaster reads generate an assembly with 16Mb N50, not very far from what Berlin et al. (2015, Nat. Biotech) got with 120X reads (previous version would get 9.1Mb N50). This version also introduces a new parameter to reduce errors introduced by repeats.

quickmerge beta release

This package contains all necessary components to run the assembly merger program quickmerge as described in our paper (pending release).