AMOS/assembly software needs/wants

This is a list of programs that would be nice to have as part of the AMOS package or just as general tools for assembly work.  If you wish to write one of these, or if you've already written one, please contact us to have your software included.

  • program to select a set of sequences from a bank based on eid, iid, or regular expression matching eid.  The selection should be inclusive (select all that match) or exclusive (select all that do not match) and must retrive all records that refer to the selected objects (e.g. all libraries and fragments).  Note: part of this is already done by bank-report and select-reads.
  • program to select a set of sequences from an AMOS or CA fragment file based on eid (src in CA), iid (acc in CA), or regular expression matching eid(src).  The selection should be inclusive (select all that match) or exclusive (select all that do not match) and must retrive all records that refer to the selected objects (e.g. all libraries and fragments).  Note: part of this is already done by filterfrg in AMOS/src/Utils
  • program to convert from the "old" .afg format containing explicit MTP records to the "new" .afg format that transfered this information into the FRG records.
  • documentation tool: a combination of uniformly formatted help messages for all AMOS programs, combined with a program that automatically generates a set of websites linking to the relevant documentation. The programs will be categorized by a series of pre-defined keywords
  • full-fledged shotgun sequence simulator that contains different models of library construction and sequencing errors (in particular for simulating 454 sequence data)