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rdeval

A general purpose, multithreaded read analysis and manipulation tool.

rdeval is a single, fast and exhaustive tool for summary statistics and simultaneous *fa* (fasta, fastq [.gz]) read file manipulation. rdeval also allows seamless fasta<>fastq[.gz] conversion.

Typical fast* metrics include:

  • number of reads
  • total read length
  • average read length
  • read N50
  • shortest read
  • longest read
  • coverage
  • GC content
  • base composition

Installation

Either download one of the releases or git clone https://github.com/vgl-hub/rdeval.git --recursive and make -j in the rdeval folder.

Usage

`rdeval input.[fasta|fastq][.gz] [expected genome size]

To check out all options and flags use rdeval -h.

You can test some typical usage with the files in the testFiles folder, e.g.:

rdeval testFiles/random1.fastq 10 // computes summary statistics, including coverage (expected genome size 10bp)

How to cite

If you use rdeval in your work, please cite:

Gfastats: conversion, evaluation and manipulation of genome sequences using assembly graphs

Giulio Formenti, Linelle Abueg, Angelo Brajuka, Nadolina Brajuka, Cristo Gallardo, Alice Giani, Olivier Fedrigo, Erich D. Jarvis

doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btac460