[BioRuby] Genomer: a ruby project to simplify genome finishing

[Francesco Strozzi]

Hi Michael,
thanks for that! I am working on genome assembly as well from time to
time so I will try Genomer.
Anyway cool idea to create a screen cast!

Cheers

On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Michael Barton
<mail at michaelbarton.me.uk> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I've been working a sequencing microbial genomes during my current post doc
> position. I've combined many of the ruby scripts I was using into a single tool
> called "genomer" which might be of interest to other bioinformaticians working
> in the same area.
>
> I used this tool to simplify the smaller, mundane tasks associated with a
> genome. For instance moving contigs and associated annotations around,
> generating the required files to submit to GenBank, and generating summaries of
> the genome scaffold.
>
> I created a small screencast for anyone who is interested in finding out more:
> http://youtu.be/HfsdJOELFjs?hd=1
>
> I wrote this tool to satisfy my own needs and use genomer extensively for the
> microbial genome projects in our lab. My GNU Makefile (http://bit.ly/WMKlCZ)
> from a P. fluorescens project illustrates how genomer combined with GenBank's
> tbl2asn can be used to build the all files required for genome submission.
>
> Hopefully genomer may be useful to other bioinformaticians and simplify the
> steps required to finish and submit a genome.
>
> Thanks
>
> Michael Barton
>
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Francesco