Authors
Ryan R Wick, Mark B Schultz, Justin Zobel, Kathryn E Holt
Publication date
2015/10/15
Journal
Bioinformatics
Volume
31
Issue
20
Pages
3350-3352
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Description
Summary: Although de novo assembly graphs contain assembled contigs (nodes), the connections between those contigs (edges) are difficult for users to access. Bandage (a Bioinformatics Application for Navigating De novo Assembly Graphs Easily) is a tool for visualizing assembly graphs with connections. Users can zoom in to specific areas of the graph and interact with it by moving nodes, adding labels, changing colors and extracting sequences. BLAST searches can be performed within the Bandage graphical user interface and the hits are displayed as highlights in the graph. By displaying connections between contigs, Bandage presents new possibilities for analyzing de novo assemblies that are not possible through investigation of contigs alone.
Availability and implementation: Source code and binaries are freely available at https://github.com/rrwick/Bandage. Bandage is …
Scholar articles
RR Wick, MB Schultz, J Zobel, KE Holt - Bioinformatics, 2015