title: CISA: contig integrator for sequence assembly of bacterial genomes.
abstract: A plethora of algorithmic assemblers have been proposed for the de novo assembly of genomes, however, no individual assembler guarantees the optimal assembly for diverse species. Optimizing various parameters in an assembler is often performed in order to generate the most optimal assembly. However, few efforts have been pursued to take advantage of multiple assemblies to yield an assembly of high accuracy. In this study, we employ various state-of-the-art assemblers to generate different sets of contigs for bacterial genomes. A tool, named CISA, has been developed to integrate the assemblies into a hybrid set of contigs, resulting in assemblies of superior contiguity and accuracy, compared with the assemblies generated by the state-of-the-art assemblers and the hybrid assemblies merged by existing tools. This tool is implemented in Python and requires MUMmer and BLAST+ to be installed on the local machine. The source code of CISA and examples of its use are available at http://sb.nhri.org.tw/CISA/.
authors.affiliation: Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Shin-Hung
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Yu-Chieh
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Liao
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D020451:Contig Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics*; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D019622:Haloferax volcanii / Q000235:genetics*; D012984:Software; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000235:genetics*
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