QUAST performs fast and convenient quality evaluation and comparison of genome assemblies. It is maintained by the Gurevich lab at HIPS (https://helmholtz-hips.de/en/hmsb).
For the most up-to-date description, please visit http://quast.sf.net. Below are just some highlights.
QUAST computes several well-known metrics, including contig accuracy, the number of genes discovered, N50, and others, as well as introducing new ones, like NA50 (see details in the paper and manual). A comprehensive analysis results in summary tables (in plain text, tab-separated, and LaTeX formats) and colorful plots. The tool also produces web-based reports condensing all information in one easy-to-navigate file.
QUAST and its three follow-up papers (MetaQUAST, Icarus, QUAST-LG) papers were published in Bioinformatics; the last paper (WebQUAST) is out in Nucl Acid Research.
Features
- web-based reports, tables in plain txt, tab-separated and LaTeX formats
- colorful plots and histograms
- quality evaluation with and without a reference genome
- quality evaluation of metagenomic assemblies
- interactive contig browser