Short read de novo assembly with Velevet

Velvet is software to perform dna De novo assembly from short reads by manipulating de Bruijn graphs. Some introduction can be found here: Introduction to de novo assembly with Velvet. It is an old software and recently SPAdes is the most popular de novo assembler. I used Velvet here simply because it is easy to be exported to WebAssembly and it is good enough for simple projects like gene/plasmid assembly.

You can read the Velvet manual or the SPAdes instructions for some parameter setting suggestion.

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Step 1: load fastq files and set assembling parameters








Step 2: Start Assembling

Acknowledgements

  1. velvet: https://github.com/dzerbino/velvet
  2. biowasm project for easy exporting C/C++ tools to WebAssembly.