Often, genome assembly projects have illumina whole genome sequencing reads available for the assembled individual.

The k-mer spectrum of this read set can be used for independently evaluating assembly quality without the need of a high quality reference.

Merqury provides a set of tools for this purpose.

• Version: 1.3
• Added: August, 2024
• Link: https://github.com/marbl/merqury

See which versions are available:

$ module avail merqury

Load one version into your environment and run it:

$ module load merqury
$ merqury.sh

See: https://github.com/marbl/merqury?tab=readme-ov-file#run

Notes from the sysadmin during installation:

$ cd /tmp
$ git clone https://github.com/marbl/merqury.git -b v1.3
$ sudo mkdir /export/apps/merqury
$ sudo cp -r merqury /export/apps/merqury/1.3