The MaSuRCA (Maryland Super Read Cabog Assembler) assembler combines the benefits of deBruijn graph and Overlap-Layout-Consensus assembly approaches. Since version 3.2.1 it supports hybrid assembly with short Illumina reads and long high error PacBio/MinION data.

• Version: 3.3.1
• Added: September, 2014
• Updated: April, 2019
• Link: https://github.com/alekseyzimin/masurca

See versions of masurca which are available:

$ module avail masurca

Load one version into your environment and run it:

$ module load masurca/3.3.1
$ masurca

Notes from the sysadmin during installation:

$ cd /tmp
$ wget https://github.com/alekseyzimin/masurca/releases/download/v3.3.1/MaSuRCA-3.3.1.tar.gz
$ tar xf MaSuRCA-3.3.1.tar.gz
$ cd MaSuRCA-3.3.1
$ sudo mkdir /export/apps/masurca/3.3.1
$ sudo chown aorth /export/apps/masurca/3.3.1
$ sudo yum install perl-Env.noarch
$ DEST=/export/apps/masurca/3.3.1 ./install.sh
$ sudo chown -R root:root /export/apps/masurca/3.3.1