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====== Celera Assembler ====== The Celera Assembler is a De novo whole genome sequence assembler, designed by Celera Genomics. It was created in 1999 and remained proprietary until its release under the GNU license in 2004. With its open-source release came a name change to wgs-assembler. It was also included in the 454 pipeline under the name CABOG in 2008. Here is a link to the [[http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/wgs-assembler/index.php?title=Main_Page|Source Forge Page]] ===== Installation instructions ===== Celera assembler is now installed under /campusdata/BME235/programs/Celera following the instructions given at [[http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/wgs-assembler/index.php?title=Version_5.4_Release_Notes | the Source Forge Release Notes Page]]. Following steps were followed to install : <code> % bzip2 -dc wgs-6.0-beta.tar.bz2 | tar -xf - % cd wgs-6.0-beta % cd kmer % sh configure.sh % gmake install % cd ../src % gmake % cd .. Binary distributions need only be unpacked. % bzip2 -dc wgs-6.0-beta-Linux-amd64.tar.bz2 | tar -xf - </code>
