title: Icarus: visualizer for de novo assembly evaluation.
abstract: : Data visualization plays an increasingly important role in NGS data analysis. With advances in both sequencing and computational technologies, it has become a new bottleneck in genomics studies. Indeed, evaluation of de novo genome assemblies is one of the areas that can benefit from the visualization. However, even though multiple quality assessment methods are now available, existing visualization tools are hardly suitable for this purpose. Here, we present Icarus-a novel genome visualizer for accurate assessment and analysis of genomic draft assemblies, which is based on the tool QUAST. Icarus can be used in studies where a related reference genome is available, as well as for non-model organisms. The tool is available online and as a standalone application.
  
  
  
  http://cab.spbu.ru/software/icarus CONTACT: aleksey.gurevich@spbu.ruSupplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
authors.affiliation: Center for Algorithmic Biotechnology, Institute of Translational Biomedicine, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, 199034.
authors.forename: Alla
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mikheenko
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Information Technology, St. Petersburg Academic University, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia, 194021.
authors.forename: Gleb
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Valin
authors.affiliation: Center for Algorithmic Biotechnology, Institute of Translational Biomedicine, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, 199034.
authors.forename: Andrey
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Prjibelski
authors.affiliation: Center for Algorithmic Biotechnology, Institute of Translational Biomedicine, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, 199034.
authors.forename: Vladislav
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Saveliev
authors.affiliation: Center for Algorithmic Biotechnology, Institute of Translational Biomedicine, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, 199034.
authors.forename: Alexey
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gurevich
mesh_terms: D016678:Genome; D023281:Genomics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D012984:Software