[mira_talk] Re: Question about illumina de-novo sequencing

  • From: Bastien Chevreux <bach@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mira_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 09:35:54 +0200

On 05 Sep 2014, at 8:48 , Mehmet göktay <mehmetgoktay1989@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> About your two-fold recommendation, we expect the genome size will be about 
> 900 mb. And the company will supply us 15gb and its about 10 coverage. Our 
> aim is not assembling whole genome but we are planning to get long enough 
> contigs to search ssr on it.
> 
> Do you thing we can accomplish it with mira? 

You can try: 15 gigabases is about 50m reads at 300bp. I’ve run assemblies with 
more than that. You’d need quite some RAM though.

And be prepared to activate plan B for the case things go wrong or don’t work 
with MIRA.

B.


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