Ray is a parallel software that computes de novo genome assemblies with next-generation sequencing data. Ray is written in C++ and can run in parallel on numerous interconnected computers using the message-passing interface (MPI) standard.

• Version: 2.3.1
• Added: August, 2014
• K-mer size: 32 (default at compile time)
• Link: http://denovoassembler.sourceforge.net/

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Notes from the sysadmin during installation:

cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/sebhtml/RayPlatform.git
git clone https://github.com/sebhtml/ray.git
cd ray
git checkout v2.3.1
scl enable devtoolset-1.1 bash
module load openmpi/1.8.2
make PREFIX=/export/apps/ray/2.3.1 HAVE_LIBZ=y HAVE_LIBBZ2=y
strip Ray
sudo mkdir -p /export/apps/ray/2.3.1
sudo chown -R aorth:aorth /export/apps/ray/2.3.1
make install
sudo chown -R root:root /export/apps/ray/2.3.1