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Title

Graphical contig analyzer for all sequencing platforms (G4ALL): a new stand-alone tool for finishing and draft generation of bacterial genomes

 

Authors

Rommel Thiago Jucá Ramos1, Adriana R Carneiro1, Pablo H Caracciolo1, Vasco Azevedo2, Maria Paula C Schneider1, Debmalya Barh3*& Artur Silva1

 

Affiliation

1Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, PA, Brazil; 2Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil; 3Centre for Genomics and Applied Gene Technology, Institute of Integrative Omics and Applied Biotechnology (IIOAB), Nonakuri, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal-721172, India.

 

Email

dr.barh@gmail.com; *Corresponding author

 

Article Type

Software

 

Date

Received May 20, 2013; Accepted May 27, 2013; Published June 29, 2013

 

Abstract

Genome assembly has always been complicated due to the inherent difficulties of sequencing technologies, as well the computational methods used to process sequences. Although many of the problems for the generation of contigs from reads are well known, especially those involving short reads, the orientation and ordination of contigs in the finishing stages is still very challenging and time consuming, as it requires the manual curation of the contigs to guarantee correct identification them and prevent misassembly. Due to the large numbers of sequences that are produced, especially from the reads produced by next generation sequencers, this process demands considerable manual effort, and there are few software options available to facilitate the process. To address this problem, we have developed the Graphic Contig Analyzer for All Sequencing Platforms (G4ALL): a stand-alone multi-user tool that facilitates the editing of the contigs produced in the assembly process. Besides providing information on the gene products contained in each contig, obtained through a search of the available biological databases, G4ALL produces a scaffold of the genome, based on the overlap of the contigs after curation.

 

Availability

http://www.genoma.ufpa.br/rramos/softwares/g4all.xhtml

 

Keywords

Genome assembly, Bioinformatic tools, sequence analysis, software.

 

Citation

Ramos et al. Bioinformation 9(11): 599-604 (2013)

 

Edited by

P Kangueane

 

ISSN

0973-2063

 

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

 

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.