RACON - We've seen some accuracy boost when polishing with ONT/PB reads by changing the alignment parameters to either 2/-5/-2 or 3/-5/-4

Raven - long read de novo assembler. github.com/lbcb-sci/raven - with Robert Vaser. Raven is an upgraded version of Ra which is now one binary without any intermediate files plus some additional improvements. Any feedback is more than welcome!

GraphAligner: Rapid and Versatile Sequence-to-Graph Alignment biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

If you are interested in #GenomeAssembly using #OxfordNanopore sequencing, check out the course organized by Physalia-courses@ONLINE and Mile Sikic lab, held in Berlin in February. Registrations are still open at physalia-courses.org/courses-worksh…, see you there!

The 1st edition of the Physalia-courses@ONLINE on Genome Assembly using Oxford Nanopore sequencing is now underway with Robert Vaser and @jmaricb

Many thanks to the instructors Robert Vaser @jmaricb and all the participants of our first course on #GenomeAssembly using #OxfordNanopore in Berlin (Freie Universität)! Oxford Nanopore

A new release of long read de novo assembler Raven is out! It is much faster on larger genomes than previous versions, produces fewer contigs than other assemblers, and now finally supports circularisation info and resume option. With Robert Vaser !! github.com/lbcb-sci/raven

Raven - rapid and easy to use long read de novo assembler which produces the least number of contigs biorxiv.org/content/10.110… w/ Robert Vaser. Any comments are more than welcome!

Registrations are now open for the 2nd edition of the course "GENOME ASSEMBLY USING OXFORD NANOPORE SEQUENCING" in February 2021 with Robert Vaser and @jmaricb physalia-courses.org/courses-worksh… #GenomeAssembly #LongReads Oxford Nanopore Oxford Nanopore Events

Dedicate enough time to database preparation biorxiv.org/content/10.110… w/ @jmaricb Krešimir Križanović Sylvain Niranjan Nagarajan

Interested in #GenomeAssembly using Oxford Nanopore data? Still a few places on the second edition of our course with Robert Vaser and @jmaricb (Mile Sikic lab) in February (22-26). Please check it out: physalia-courses.org/courses-worksh…

🧬2nd edition of the course "GENOME ASSEMBLY USING Oxford Nanopore SEQUENCING" will be delivered online in February (22-26). 👤👤Still a few places available! 🔗physalia-courses.org/courses-worksh… #GenomeAssembly #Nanopore #longreads

glad that SWORD - fast and sensitive software for protein sequence alignment finally is gaining popularity. github.com/rvaser/sword academic.oup.com/bioinformatics… w/ Robert Vaser and Dario Pavlovic

Raven version 1.5.0 - up to 2x faster (increases with data accuracy), improves NGA50 in most cases, properly handles small plasmids. w/ Robert Vaser github.com/lbcb-sci/raven

Robert Vaser and Mile Sikic present Raven, a graph drawing based method for improvement of genome assembly from erroneous long-reads (rdcu.be/ckZT1). nature.com/articles/s4358…

De novo assembler Raven is published at NatCompSci rdcu.be/ckZT1. Easy to use, fast and memory efficient. Try it with metagenomic data too. w/Robert Vaser !!!

Scientists from GIS, namely Prof Mile Sikic and Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Robert Vaser have published their work on a novel de novo genome assembler called 'Raven in Nature Computational Science'. Check it out! Read: [bit.ly/3faKGOW]

I am hiring a postdoc at the Genome Institute of Singapore. Join Niranjan Nagarajan and me on a project aiming to rapidly identify microbes in a sample using sequencing data and deep learning methods inspired by song recognition. DM or email me