MaSuRCA is whole genome assembly software. It combines the efficiency of the de Bruijn graph and Overlap-Layout-Consensus (OLC) approaches. MaSuRCA can assemble data sets containing only short reads from Illumina sequencing or a mixture of short reads and long reads (Sanger, 454).

• Version: 2.2.1
• Added: June, 2014
• Link: http://www.genome.umd.edu/masurca.html

module avail masurca

Notes from the sysadmin during installation:

wget ftp://ftp.genome.umd.edu/pub/MaSuRCA/v2.2.1/MaSuRCA-2.2.1.tar.gz
tar zxf MaSuRCA-2.2.1.tar.gz  -C /tmp/
cd /tmp/MaSuRCA-2.2.1/
sudo mkdir -p /export/apps/masurca/2.2.1
sudo chown aorth /export/apps/masurca/2.2.1
scl enable devtoolset-1.1 bash
DEST=/export/apps/masurca/2.2.1 ./install.sh
sudo chown -R root:root /export/apps/masurca/2.2.1