The Institute for Genomic Research founded in 1992 by Craig Venter in Rockville, Maryland, United States.
TIGR is now a part of J. Craig Venter Institute JCVI.

TIGR is a sequence assembly tool to build consensus sequence from short sequence fragments.

TIGR literature can be found here.

TIGR_Assembler_v2 has been installed in “/campusdata/BME235/programs/TIGR/” from the link.

Under /campusdata/BME235/programs/TIGR/

• tar -xvzf TIGR_Assembler_v2.tar.gz
• cd TIGR_Assembler_v2
• cd src/
• make
• “/campusdata/BME235/programs/TIGR/TIGR_Assembler_v2/README” has the instructions to run the software on the data.