Velvet assemblerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Velvet is a set of algorithms manipulating de Bruijn graphs for genomic Sequence assembly. It was designed for short read sequencing technologies, such as Solexa or 454 Sequencing and was developed by Daniel Zerbino and Ewan Birney at the European Bioinformatics Institute. The tool takes in short read sequences, removes errors then produces high quality unique contigs. It then uses paired-end read and long read information, when available, to retrieve the repeated areas between contigs. It has also been implemented inside the commercial package Geneious Server.