[maker-devel] new tool for assembly validation

[Carson Holt]

Thanks Panos,

I’ve heard good things about BUSCO, in fact someone from the CEGMA/SNAP group recommended we try it instead of CEGMA on a project I’m collaborating on.

Cheers,
Carson


> On Jun 1, 2015, at 1:55 PM, Panos Ioannidis <panos.ioannidis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello MAKER users,
> 
> Our lab has recently developed a new tool for genome/transcriptome assembly validation called BUSCO (for Benchmarking Universal Single-Copy Orthologs) (busco.ezlab.org <http://busco.ezlab.org/>). It works in a way similar to CEGMA, but with certain key differences.
> 
> One of its important features (that actually "pushed" me to write this post), is that it can train Augustus using the BUSCOs models it identifies in the genome.
> 
> The manuscript is accepted in Bioinformatics and will soon be published, but you can already download it from the website above and try it.
> 
> And please let me know if you have any questions or problems!
> 
> Panos
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