# HG changeset patch # User iuc # Date 1424835649 18000 # Node ID fa0ec960c47d96f7d0c07b56b650f0d40690e11b # Parent 020178be49eebb7ef746c185ae08a70eb138d500 Uploaded diff -r 020178be49ee -r fa0ec960c47d tool_dependencies.xml --- a/tool_dependencies.xml Thu May 22 08:48:29 2014 -0400 +++ b/tool_dependencies.xml Tue Feb 24 22:40:49 2015 -0500 @@ -18,8 +18,14 @@ +MUMmer is a system for rapidly aligning entire genomes, whether in complete or draft form. +For example, MUMmer 3.0 can find all 20-basepair or longer exact matches between a pair of 5-megabase genomes in 13.7 seconds, +using 78 MB of memory, on a 2.4 GHz Linux desktop computer. MUMmer can also align incomplete genomes; it can easily handle the 100s or 1000s +of contigs from a shotgun sequencing project, and will align them to another set of contigs or a genome using the NUCmer program included with the system. +If the species are too divergent for a DNA sequence alignment to detect similarity, then the PROmer program can generate +alignments based upon the six-frame translations of both input sequences. + http://mummer.sourceforge.net/ -MUMmer is a system for rapidly aligning entire genomes, whether in complete or draft form. For example, MUMmer 3.0 can find all 20-basepair or longer exact matches between a pair of 5-megabase genomes in 13.7 seconds, using 78 MB of memory, on a 2.4 GHz Linux desktop computer. MUMmer can also align incomplete genomes; it can easily handle the 100s or 1000s of contigs from a shotgun sequencing project, and will align them to another set of contigs or a genome using the NUCmer program included with the system. If the species are too divergent for a DNA sequence alignment to detect similarity, then the PROmer program can generate alignments based upon the six-frame translations of both input sequences.