EnhancedFALCON
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EnhancedFALCON is a modified version of the FALCON software for genome assembly from long-read sequencing. Its performance is significantly improved for users with a cluster environment where all nodes access files through NFS from a central NFS server. Additionally, it includes several custom scripts for real-time monitoring of job progress, for summarizing the assembly results, and for troubleshooting potential errors during assembly.


Falcon
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Falcon: a set of tools for fast aligning long reads for consensus and assembly

The Falcon tool kit is a set of simple code collection which I use for studying
efficient assembly algorithm for haploid and diploid genomes. It has some back-end 
code implemented in C for speed and some simple front-end written in Python for
convenience. 


DOCUMENTATION
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[Documentation is here.](https://github.com/PacificBiosciences/FALCON/blob/master/doc/falcon_manual.md)

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