Racon¶
Racon can be used to correct raw contigs generated by rapid assembly methods which do not include a consensus step. The bundle packages version 1.5.0.
Usage example¶
The following command can be executed in the terminal to load the bundle:
The module makes the racon and racon_wrapper commands available. The
racon_shell command can be used to access a shell in the bundle.
Run pet list -t racon for a list of examples.
Performance notes¶
No performance notes available
Recommended resources per session¶
Racon should be run on a system with at least 16 GB of RAM and 16 threads. According to the paper, 12 threads were used and most analysis used 16 GB or less memory.
Benchmarks¶
No benchmarks available.
Community guides and tutorials¶
- No community guides available.
Official site and documentation¶
Licensing information¶
Racon is licensed under the MIT license.
Primary citation¶
Fast and accurate de novo genome assembly from long uncorrected reads Robert Vaser 1,5, Ivan Sović 2,5, Niranjan Nagarajan 3, Mile Šikić 1,4 PMCID: PMC5411768 PMID: 28100585
External guides and resources¶
- If you know of a guide/tutorial that you have found useful, please help us share it by contacting the HPC staff at hpc@ufs.ac.za