Ray

Application data
Created by	Sébastien Boisvert, François Laviolette & Jacques Corbeil.
Biological application domain(s)	genomics
Principal bioinformatics method(s)	de novo assembly with MPI
Technology	tested: Illumina, 454+Illumina
Created at	Université Laval, Québec, Canada
Maintained?	Yes
Input format(s)	paired, paired interleaved, single reads: .fasta .fasta.gz .fasta.bz2 .fastq .fastq.gz .fastq.bz2 .sff
Output format(s)	.fasta, .txt
Software features	MPI 2.2 * ISO/IEC C++ 2003 * de Bruijn * paralleled * Illumina data
Programming language(s)	MPI 2.2 * ISO/IEC C++ 2003
Licence	GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 29 June 2007
Operating system(s)	All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes), Linux

Summary: de novo genome assembly is now a challenge because of the overwhelming amount of data produced by sequencers. Ray assembles reads obtained with new sequencing technologies (Illumina, 454, SOLiD) using MPI 2.2 -- a message passing inferface standard. 200px|right

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see http://denovoassembler.sf.net/