Arachne Main Page

From ArachneWiki

Arachne is the Whole Genome Shotgun Assembler developed at the Broad Institute.

The ArachneWiki is Arachne's online home. To participate in this wiki, please send mail to arachne-dev@broad.mit.edu to ask for an account.

Contents 1 Quick Links 1.1 Downloads 1.2 Public tools 1.3 Reference 1.4 Miscellaneous 2 External links

Quick Links

Downloads

• Nightly Build: The current state of Arachne - updated within the last 24 hours.
• Stable Build: The latest stable, trustworthy version of Arachne.
• Sample Projects: ready-made examples of Arachne input.

Public tools

• Bugzilla: Bug tracking system
• arachne@broad.mit.edu: Mailing list

Reference

• Setup: how to download, install, and compile Arachne.
• Input
• Running Arachne: from traces to the draft genome.
• Output
• Analysis: how to examine your assembly.
• Algorithms: For improving assemblies.

Miscellaneous

• About ArachneWiki
• Arachne's lore

External links

• DNA sequencing
• Shotgun sequencing
• Broad Institute