BioEdit - a very popular free sequence alignment editor for Windows.
Staden Package - a powerful open source sequence assembly and editing package for UNIX, Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. Not the most user-friendly package, steep learning curve.
Se-Al - An older sequence alignment editor for Mac OS X. Not updated since 2002, but still popular.
4Peaks - A free trace viewer and editor for Mac OS X.
CodonCode Aligner - A powerful sequence assembly program for Windows and Mac OS X. Free demo downloads (no forms), 30-day fully functional trial. Published prices, significantly less expensive than other popular packages.
Sequencher - Perhaps the most commonly used package in the USA. Prices for licenses are not listed at the web site, but typically start at several thousand dollars.
DNASTAR Lasergene - Another popular sequence assembly program. Similar in price to Sequencher. Trials and prices available on
This site is dedicated to software for DNA sequence assembly and alignment. Sequence assembly refers to the process of merging DNA fragments into larger "contigs" for subsequent analysis. An overview of different problems and approaches is available on Wikipedia.
Gap4 / Gap5 | Open source sequence assembler for Sanger sequencing. Part of the Staden package of DNA sequence analysis tools. |
Phrap | The sequence assembly program Phrap was developed to assemble shotgun cosmid and BAC sequencing projects in the Human Genome Project. Phrap pioneered a number of imp |
Celera Assembler | The program that was used to assemble the first human genome, released as open source in 2004. Assembles Sanger sequencing da |
Arachne | A whole genome assembler for Sanger sequencing reads developed at the Broad Institute. BAC2BAC and fosmid Free for research and educational use. |
ALLPATH | A sequence assembly program for whole genome assemblies from short ("next generation") sequencing reads from MIT's Broad Institute. Free for research and educational use. |
MUMmer | An open source software package for aligning whole genomes. |
AMOS | A Modular, Open Source whole genome assembler. A collaboration of four research institutes. |
The Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the University of Maryland has compiled a collection of sequence da
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_assembly
The following table lists assemblers that have a de-novo assembly capability on at least on
Name | Type | Technologies and algorithm |
Author | Presented /
Last updated |
Licence* | Homepage |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ABySS | (large) genomes | Solexa, SOLiD De Bruijn graph(DBG) |
Simpson, J. et al. | 2008 / 2011 | NC-A | link |
ALLPATHS-LG | (large) genomes | Solexa, SOLiD (DBG) | Gnerre, S. et al. | 2011 | OS | link |
AMOS | genomes | Sanger, 454 | Salzberg, S. et al. | 2002? / 2008? | OS | link |
Arapan-M | Medium Genomes (e.g. E.coli) | All | Sahli, M. & Shibuya, T. | 2011 / 2012 | OS | link |
Arapan-S | Small Genomes (Viruses and Bacteria) | All | Sahli, M. & Shibuya, T. | 2011 / 2012 | OS | link |
Celera WGA Assembler / CABOG | (large) genomes | Sanger, 454, Solexa overlap-layout-consensus(OLC) |
Myers, G. et al.; Miller G. et al. | 2004 / 2010 | OS | link |
CLC Genomics Workbench & CLC Assembly Cell | genomes | Sanger, 454, Solexa, SOLiD OLC |
CLC bio | 2008 / 2010 / 2011 | C | link |
Cortex | genomes | Solexa, SOLiD | Iqbal, Z. et al. | 2011 | OS | link |
DNA Baser | genomes | Sanger, 454 | Heracle BioSoft SRL | 12.2013 | C | www.DnaBaser.com |
DNA Dragon | genomes | Illumina, SOLiD, Complete Genomics, 454, Sanger | SequentiX | 2011 | C | link |
DNAnexus | genomes | Illumina, SOLiD, Complete Genomics | DNAnexus | 2011 | C | link |
Edena | genomes | Illumina OLC |
D. Hernandez, P. Fran?ois, L. Farinelli, M. Osteras, and J. Schrenzel. | 2008/2013 | OS | link |
Euler | genomes | Sanger, 454 (,Solexa ?) | Pevzner, P. et al. | 2001 / 2006? | (C / NC-A?) | link |
Euler-sr | genomes | 454, Solexa | Chaisson, MJ. et al. | 2008 | NC-A | link |
Forge | (large) genomes, EST, metagenomes | 454, Solexa, SOLID, Sanger | Platt, DM, Evers, D. | 2010 | OS | link |
Geneious | genomes | Sanger, 454, Solexa, Ion Torrent, Complete Genomics, PacBio, Oxford Nanopore, Illumina | Biomatters Ltd | 2009 / 2013 | C | link |
Graph Constructor | (large) genomes | Sanger, 454, Solexa, SOLiD | Convey Computer Corporation | 2011 | C | link |
IDBA (Iterative De Bruijn graph short read Assembler) | (large) genomes | Sanger,454,Solexa | Yu Peng, Henry C. M. Leung, Siu-Ming Yiu, Francis Y. L. Chin | 2010 | (C / NC-A?) | link |
LIGR Assembler (derived from TIGR Assembler) | genomic | Sanger | - | 2009/ 2012 | OS | link |
MaSuRCA (Maryland Super Read - Celera Assembler) | (large) genomes | Sanger, Illumina, 454 hybrid approach |
Aleksey Zimin, Guillaume Mar?ais, Daniela Puiu, Michael Roberts, Steven L. Salzberg, James A. Yorke | 2012 / 2013 | OS | link |
MIRA (Mimicking Intelligent Read Assembly) | genomes, ESTs | Sanger, 454, Solexa | Chevreux, B. | 1998 / 2011 | OS | link |
NextGENe | (small genomes?) | 454, Solexa, SOLiD | Softgenetics | 2008 | C | link |
Newbler | genomes, ESTs | 454, Sanger(OLC) | 454/Roche | 2009 | C | link |
PADENA | genomes | 454, Sanger | 454/Roche | 2010 | OS | link |
PASHA | (large) genomes | Illumina | Liu, Schmidt, Maskell | 2011 | OS | link |
Phrap | genomes | Sanger, 454, Solexa (OLC) |
Green, P. | 1994 / 2008 | C / NC-A | link |
TIGR Assembler | genomic | Sanger | - | 1995 / 2003 | OS | link |
Ray[7] | genomes | Illumina, mix of Illumina and 454, paired or not | Sébastien Boisvert, Fran?ois Laviolette & Jacques Corbeil. | 2010 | OS [GNU General Public License] | link |
Sequencher | genomes | traditional and next generation sequence da |
Gene Codes Corporation | 1991 / 2009 / 2011 | C | link |
SeqMan NGen | (large) genomes, exomes, transcriptomes, metagenomes, ESTs | Illumina, ABI SOLiD, Roche 454, Ion Torrent, Solexa, Sanger | DNASTAR | 2007 / 2011 | C | link |
SGA | (large) genomes | Illumina, Sanger (Roche 454?, Ion Torrent?) | Simpson, J.T. et al. | 2011 / 2012 | OS | link |
SHARCGS | (small) genomes | Solexa | Dohm et al. | 2007 / 2007 | OS | link |
SOPRA | genomes | Illumina, SOLiD, Sanger, 454 | Dayarian, A. et al. | 2010 / 2011 | OS | link |
SparseAssembler | (large) genomes | Illumina, 454, Ion torrent | Ye, C. et al. | 2012 / 2012 | OS | link |
SSAKE | (small) genomes | Solexa (SOLiD? Helicos?) | Warren, R. et al. | 2007 / 2007 | OS | link |
SOAPdenovo | genomes | Solexa (DBG) |
Li, R. et al. | 2009 / 2009 | OS | link |
SPAdes | (small) genomes, single-cell | Illumina, Solexa | Bankevich, A et al. | 2012 / 2013 | OS | link |
Staden gap4 package | BACs (, small genomes?) | Sanger | Staden et al. | 1991 / 2008 | OS | link |
Taipan | (small) genomes | Illumina | Schmidt, B. et al. | 2009 | OS | link |
VCAKE | (small) genomes | Solexa (SOLiD?, Helicos?) | Jeck, W. et al. | 2007 / 2007 | OS | link |
Phusion assembler | (large) genomes | Sanger (OLC) |
Mullikin JC, et al. | 2003 | OS | link |
Quality Value Guided SRA (QSRA) | genomes | Sanger, Solexa | Bryant DW, et al. | 2009 | OS | link |
Velvet |
(small) genomes | Sanger, 454, Solexa, SOLiD (DBG) |
Zerbino, D. et al. | 2007 / 2009 | OS | link |
*Licences: OS = Open Source; C = Commercial; C / NC-A = Commercial but free for non-commercial and academics; Brackets = unclear, but most likely C / NC-A |
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