Velvet

Velvet

Sequence assembler for very short reads. Velvet is a de novo genomic assembler specially designed for short read sequencing technologies, such as Solexa or 454, developed by Daniel Zerbino and Ewan Birney at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), near Cambridge, in the United Kingdom.

Velvet currently takes in short read sequences, removes errors then produces high quality unique contigs. It then uses paired-end read and long read information, when available, to retrieve the repeated areas between contigs.

Velvet has been installed on the cluster with several versions:

/apps/velvet/1.1.05/velveth /apps/velvet/1.1.05/velvetg	These versions are the defailt compile options (max kmer=31, single threaded)
/apps/velvet/1.1.05/velveth_OMP /apps/velvet/1.1.05/velvetg_OMP	These versions are compiled with the default kmer, but using OpenMP--see OpenMP notes below for details
/apps/velvet/1.1.05/velveth_max99_OMP /apps/velvet/1.1.05/velvetg_max99_OMP	These versions are compiled with a max kmer of 99 and OpenMP--see OpenMP notes below for details

Note that all versions were compiled with icc.
Please file a bugzilla request for additional compile options like color space, different kmers, LONGSEQUENCES, etc.

OpenMP Notes

If you use one of the OpenMP versions of velvet, you must set the enviromental variables OMP_NUM_THREADS and OMP_THREAD_LIMIT to the appropriate value based on your processor request in your submission script. For example if you use #PBS -l nodes=1:ppn=8 in your script also include export OMP_NUM_THREADS=7; expot OMP_THREAD_LIMIT=8 (for a bash script).

Website

Velvet home page.

Example submission script

!/bin/bash
#PBS -N velvet
#PBS -o velvet.out
#PBS -e velvet.err
#PBS -M <your e-mail addres>
#PBS -m abe
#PBS -l walltime=12:00:00     # HH:MM:SS
#PBS -l pmem=4gb               # 4GB of RAM per thread, or 4X8=32GB in this case
#PBS -l nodes=1:ppn=8

cd $PBS_O_WORKDI

#Set OMP_THREAD_LIMIT--should be the same as ppn above

export OMP_THREAD_LIMIT=8

/apps/velvet/1.1.05/velveth_max99_OMP velvet_out/ 45 -fastq.gz -shortPaired my_paried_data.fastq.gz
/apps/velvet/1.1.05/velvetg_max99_OMP velvet_out/ -min_contig_lgth 250 -exp_cov 10 -ins_length 350