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Sequence Assembly with CAFTOOLS
Journal article published in 1998 by
Simon Dear,
Richard Durbin 
,
LaDeana Hillier,
Gabor Marth,
Jean Thierry-Mieg,
Richard Mott
,
LaDeana Hillier,
Gabor Marth,
Jean Thierry-Mieg,
Richard Mott
Abstract
Large-scale genomic sequencing requires a software infrastructure to support and integrate applications that are not directly compatible. We describe a suite of software tools built around the Common Assembly Format (CAF), a comprehensive representation of a sequence assembly as a text file. These tools form the backbone of sequencing informatics at the Sanger Centre and the Genome Sequencing Center. The CAF format is intentionally flexible, and our Perl and C libraries, which parse and manipulate it, provide powerful tools for creating new applications as well as wrappers to incorporate other software. The tools are available free by anonymous FTP from ftp://ftp.sanger.ac.uk/pub/badger/.