Package: velvet-tests (1.2.10+dfsg1-7)

Test data for the Velvet sequence assembler

Velvet is a de novo genomic assembler specially designed for short read sequencing technologies, such as Solexa or 454, developed by Daniel Zerbino and Ewan Birney at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), near Cambridge, in the United Kingdom.

Velvet currently takes in short read sequences, removes errors then produces high quality unique contigs. It then uses paired read information, if available, to retrieve the repeated areas between contigs.

This package contains the test data to run the unit tests of Velvet, a de novo genomic assembler, that could be used as additional set of examples.