Long-read de novo assemblies: Setup

For the workshop we use Ubuntu Linux as the main Operating System. We have created a VirtualBox image, including all the necessary tools and data. You are of course welcome to use your own Linux-based system.

Installing the VirtualBox image

VirtualBox is a virtualization tool from VMWare and is freely available.

Please download the The Ubuntu image and store it on a local hard drive. A network location usually does not work, so it is better to store it locally.

Installing the data and tools on your own Ubuntu

The list of tools used for workshop:

  1. Java 8
  2. Assembly-stats
  3. Minimap2
  4. Canu
  5. Platanus
  6. Mummer 4
  7. Samtools & BCF tools
  8. Tablet
  9. Integrative Genomics Viewer (optional)

The workshop code folder contains a shell-script installing_workshop_vm.sh which installs all required packages.

The data are available from Dropbox.