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	Illumina, 454
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 C++
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/