MEGAHIT: an ultra-fast single-node solution for large and complex metagenomics assembly via succinct de Bruijn graph

Bioinformatics. 2015 May 15;31(10):1674-6. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv033. Epub 2015 Jan 20.

Abstract

MEGAHIT is a NGS de novo assembler for assembling large and complex metagenomics data in a time- and cost-efficient manner. It finished assembling a soil metagenomics dataset with 252 Gbps in 44.1 and 99.6 h on a single computing node with and without a graphics processing unit, respectively. MEGAHIT assembles the data as a whole, i.e. no pre-processing like partitioning and normalization was needed. When compared with previous methods on assembling the soil data, MEGAHIT generated a three-time larger assembly, with longer contig N50 and average contig length; furthermore, 55.8% of the reads were aligned to the assembly, giving a fourfold improvement.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
  • Metagenomics / methods*
  • Software
  • Soil

Substances

  • Soil