MetaQUAST

UNLABELLED: During the past years we have witnessed the rapid development of new
metagenome assembly methods. Although there are many benchmark utilities designed
for single-genome assemblies, there is no well-recognized evaluation and
comparison tool for metagenomic-specific analogues. In this article, we present
MetaQUAST, a modification of QUAST, the state-of-the-art tool for genome assembly
evaluation based on alignment of contigs to a reference. MetaQUAST addresses such
metagenome datasets features as (i) unknown species content by detecting and
downloading reference sequences, (ii) huge diversity by giving comprehensive
reports for multiple genomes and (iii) presence of highly relative species by
detecting chimeric contigs. We demonstrate MetaQUAST performance by comparing
several leading assemblers on one simulated and two real datasets. AVAILABILITY
AND IMPLEMENTATION: http://bioinf.spbau.ru/metaquast CONTACT:
aleksey.gurevich@spbu.ru SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are
available at Bioinformatics online.

MetaQUAST: evaluation of metagenome assemblies.

MetaQUAST is a software tool to assess and compare metagenome assemblies. The MetaQUAST algorithm uses contig alignments to reference sequences to evaluate unknown species content, reports for multiple genomes, and presence of relative species by
the detection of chimeric contigs.

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