Discovar de novo software used for Zoonomia project genome assemblies described in Genereux et al 2020 (in press)

This respository contains the software associated with the DISCOVAR de novo (experimental) assembly tool, developed at the Broad Institute. These files, and examples, are also available at ftp://ftp.broadinstitute.org/pub/crd/DiscovarDeNovo/.

Original scientific publications is Weisenfeld NI, Yin S, Sharpe T, et al. Comprehensive variation discovery in single human genomes. Nat Genet. 2014;46(12):1350‐1355. doi:10.1038/ng.3121

DISCOVAR de novo (experimental) is a whole genome shotgun assembler that can generate high quality assemblies from the latest 250 base Illumina PCR-free fragment reads.

DISCOVAR de novo (experimental) is undergoing continuous development. There is no 'offical' release, instead please download the latest source code from our nightly builds. Check back often for updates.

For more information, visit the DISCOVAR blog: http://www.broadinstitute.org/software/discovar/blog/

The above link includes directions on using the tool, along with other documentation.

-Computational R&D, The Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA http://www.broadinstitute.org/science/programs/genome-biology/computational-rd/computational-research-and-development