title: Hawkeye: an interactive visual analytics tool for genome assemblies.
abstract: Genome sequencing remains an inexact science, and genome sequences can contain significant errors if they are not carefully examined. Hawkeye is our new visual analytics tool for genome assemblies, designed to aid in identifying and correcting assembly errors. Users can analyze all levels of an assembly along with summary statistics and assembly metrics, and are guided by a ranking component towards likely mis-assemblies. Hawkeye is freely available and released as part of the open source AMOS project http://amos.sourceforge.net/hawkeye.
authors.affiliation: Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Biomolecular Sciences Building, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA. mschatz@umiacs.umd.edu
authors.forename: Michael C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Schatz
authors.forename: Adam M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Phillippy
authors.forename: Ben
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Shneiderman
authors.forename: Steven L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Salzberg
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology; D003196:Computer Graphics; D016678:Genome; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software