CLC Bio has unveiled a whole-genome de novo assembler that will assemble genomes of any size, including human and plant genomes on a single workstation computer.
CLC Bio's de novo assembler enables molecular biologists to set up, adjust and run their large genome de novo assemblies through a graphical user interface.
The assembler is said to solve four of the major de novo assembly challenges that are experienced by the scientific community: user friendliness - none of the current de novo assembly applications for large genomes works through a graphical user-interface; memory requirements - it can assemble the same datasets on a single workstation computer with only 48GB of RAM; speed - it is said to be up to 50 times faster than existing packages and finishes equivalent datasets in hours; and hybrid assemblies - it handles and combines all data formats, whether they are generated by Illumina, Solid, Roche 454, Helicos or Sanger sequencing instruments.
