Bug#487026: ITP: velvet -- Sequence assembler for very short reads
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
Package name : velvet
Version : 0.6.03
Upstream Author : Daniel Zerbino
URL : http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~zerbino/velvet/
License : GPL-2+
Programming Lang: C
Description : Sequence assembler for very short reads
Velvet is a de novo genomic assembler specially designed for short read
sequencing technologies, such as Solexa or 454, developed by Daniel Zerbino and
Ewan Birney at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), near
Cambridge, in the United Kingdom.
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Velvet currently takes in short read sequences, removes errors then produces
high quality unique contigs. It then uses paired read information, if
available, to retrieve the repeated areas between contigs.
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Velvet was published in: `Velvet: algorithms for de novo short read assembly
using de Bruijn graphs. D.R. Zerbino and E. Birney. Genome Research
18:821-829.'
The executables from this package are named `velveth' and `velvetg', so there
is no risk of namespace pollution. Despite the package being GPL-2+, there are
DFSG issues to deal with, at least a PDF with missing source. A private
preliminary package that I made for work is available upon request. Unless
somebody asks for fast-tracking, a final version will probably not be uploaded
before the Lenny release.
Have a nice day,
--
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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