DESCRIPTION ZORRO is an hybrid sequencing technology assembler. It takes to sets of pre-assembled contigs and merge them into a more contiguous and consistent assembly. AUTHORS Gustavo Gilson Lacerda Costa, glacerda@lge.ibi.unicamp.br Ramon Oliveira Vidal, vidal@lge.ibi.unicamp.br Marcelo Falsarella Carazzolle, mcarazzo@lge.ibi.unicamp.br REQUIREMENTS -BioPerl 1.6 -AMOS 2.0.8 -MuMMer 3.06 -Bowtie 0.12.5 Please ensure that the following binaries are in your PATH -nucmer -delta-filter -show-coords -bowtie-build -bowtie -toAmos -kmer-cov-plot -count-kmers -bank-transact -bank-mapping -nucmerAnnotate -nucmer2ovl -ovl2OVL -tigger -make-consensus -bank2contig -bank2fasta -listReadPlacedStatus -dumpreads Usage: Use: zorro.pl [--overlap int] [--identity float] [--[no]verbose]] [--[no]assembly1break]] [--[no]assembly2break]] --assembly1 path --assembly2 path --prefix string --readset path --kmersize int Examples: #Merges 2 assemblies zorro.pl --assembly1 454AllContigs.fna --assembly2 contigs.fa --readset 454reads.fasta Options: Arguments: --assembly1 | -1 fastafile Path to fasta file containing assembly1 (Required) --assembly2 | -2 fastafile Path to fasta file containing assembly2 (Required) --readset | -r fastafile Path to fasta file containing readset (Required) --prefix | -p string Filename prefix for output files (Default: out) --overlap | -o int Minimum overlap to be detected (Default: 40). --identity | -i float Minimum identity in the overlap region (Default: 94) --overhang | -g int Maximum alignment overhang (Default: 15) --kmersize | -k int K-mer size to use in the repeat masking module (Default: 22) --maskinglevelA | -a int Manually sets masking level A (Default: AUTO) --maskinglevelB | -b int Manually sets masking level B (Default: AUTO) --maxmerge | -m int Merges neighbouring masked regions within maxmerge bp (Default: 100) Switches: --[no]assembly1break | -x Enables/disables BRK phase for assembly1 contigs (Default: enabled) --[no]assembly2break | -y Enables/disables BRK phase for assembly2 contigs (Default: enabled) --[no]verbose | -v Enables/disables verbosity --help | -h Displays help message