Integrate depth information into QUAST analysis?

[schorlton]

Often, sequencing depth is an important metric for the quality of assemblies. Low depth contigs may be lower quality/more fragmented. Many assemblers output this information, eg. SPAdes/metaSPAdes, Flye/metaFlye, etc.

Is it possible pass this information into QUAST/metaQUAST for inclusion in output reports? This would be super helpful.

One way to do this would be to parse common FASTA header formats. Obviously, this wouldn't work for all tools but users requesting this information could add it to their FASTA headers. Another would be to supply a TSV of contig_id depth.

What are your thoughts? Thanks for consideration and the great tool!