Overlap-layout-consensus based DNA assembler of long uncorrected reads (short for Rapid Assembler).

Ra is as a fast and easy to use assembler for raw reads generated by third generation sequencing. It consists of Minimap, Rala and Racon as depicted on figure bellow.

Ra takes as input a single file containing raw reads in FASTQ format and outputs a set of contigs with high accuracy in FASTA format.

Ra flow chart

1. Python 3+
2. g++4.8+
3. Zlib (sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev)

To install Ra run to following commands:

git clone https://github.com/rvaser/ra.git ra
cd ra/
python ra.py --install

Run Ra with the following command:

python ra.py --data <reads file>

For additional information, help and bug reports please send an email to: [email protected].

This work has been supported in part by Croatian Science Foundation under the project UIP-11-2013-7353.