Arachne Main Page

From ArachneWiki

Welcome to the ArachneWiki! This is the online home of Arachne, the Whole Genome Shotgun Assembler developed at the Broad Institute.

Quick Links

Arachne Reference

• Setup
• Input
• Running Arachne
• Output
• Looking at Assemblies
• Improving Assemblies
• Independent Modules

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

• Mailing list: crdhelp@broadinstitute.org

Miscellaneous

• About ArachneWiki
• Arachne's lore

External links

• Genome assembly
• Shotgun sequencing
• Broad Institute

Publications

Batzoglou S, Jaffe DB, Stanley K, Butler J, Gnerre S, Mauceli E, Berger B, Mesirov JP, Lander ES. January, 2002. ARACHNE: a whole-genome shotgun assembler. Genome Research 12: 177 - 189.

Jaffe DB, Butler J, Gnerre S, Mauceli E, Lindblad-Toh K, Mesirov JP, Zody MC, Lander ES. January, 2003. Whole-genome sequence assembly for mammalian genomes: Arachne 2. Genome Research 13: 91 - 96.