Gfastats: conversion, evaluation and manipulation of genome sequences using assembly graphs

🤖 Plain-English Summary

MOTIVATION: With the current pace at which reference genomes are being produced, the availability of tools that can reliably and efficiently generate genome assembly summary statistics has become critical. An automated test workflow is available to ensure consistency of software updates.

🔑 Key Findings

• Additionally, with the emergence of new algorithms and data types, tools that can improve the quality of existing assemblies through automated and manual curation are required.
• RESULTS: We sought to address both these needs by developing gfastats, as part of the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP) effort to generate high-quality reference genomes at scale.
• Gfastats is a standalone tool to compute assembly summary statistics and manipulate assembly sequences in FASTA, FASTQ or GFA [.gz] format.

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