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Table 9 Assembler software for hybrid assembly

From: Testing assembly strategies of Francisella tularensis genomes to infer an evolutionary conservation analysis of genomic structures

Assembler

Version

Method

Read error correction

Assembly polishing

Canu + Pilon

1.8/ 1.23

Long-read first/ Best overlap graph (BOG)

consensus of long-reads from overlapping reads

Pilon

Flye + Pilon

2.4.2/ 1.23

Long-read first/Repeat graph

None

Pilon

SPAdes

3.13.0

Short-read first/ de Bruijn graph

BayesHammer (Illumina); hammer (Ion Torrent)

MismatchCorrector (default: disabled)

Unicycler

0.4.7

Short-read first/ de Bruijn graph (SPAdes) and string graph of short-read contigs and long-reads (Minasm)

BayesHammer (Illumina)

Racon + Pilon