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@skoren skoren released this 07 Aug 11:13
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These are release notes for Verkko version 1.1, which was released on August 7th, 2022. Verkko is a hybrid genome assembly pipeline developed for telomere-to-telomere assembly of PacBio HiFi and Oxford Nanopore reads.

The source code distribution contains everything you need to create a binary distribution for your own specific OS. Please report any issues you encounter.

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Minimum Requirements

  • 8GB minimum memory; 16GB strongly suggested
  • GCC 7 or newer (for compilation only)
  • Rust 1.58 or newer (for compilation only)
  • Python 3.5 or newer
  • Snakemake 7.0 or newer
  • GraphAligner v1.0.16 or newer
  • MBG v1.0.10 or newer

Installation

Users can download Verkko as source code or installed through a package manager like conda. The source code package needs to be compiled and installed before it can be used. Do NOT download the .zip source code. It is missing files and will not compile. This is a known flaw with git itself.

Run either:

conda install -c conda-forge -c bioconda -c defaults verkko

or build from source

curl -L https://github.com/marbl/verkko/releases/download/v1.1/verkko-v1.1.tar.gz --output verkko-v1.1.tar.gz
tar -xzf verkko-v1.1.tar.gz
cd verkko-v1.1/src
make -j 8
cd ..

Confirm the MD5 for the tar.gz matches expected:

f77269f394f2cff580d1af25de0fed6d  verkko-v1.1.tar.gz

Verkko will be installed in verkko-v1.1/bin. You can move the contents to verkko-v1.1/bin/* and verko-v1.1/lib/* to a central location if you would like. If GraphAligner or MBG are not available in your path, you may also symlink them under verkko/lib/verkko/bin/

See the README for more details.

Changes

  • Update consensus module and parameters to increase accuracy
  • Reduce stringency of ONT coverage filter, prevents valid nodes from being removed during ONT resolution, improving continuity

Bug Fixes

  • Fix crash in MBG construction (#63)
  • Fix memory leak during consensus
  • Fix bubble popping removing large (multi-Mbp) nodes

Known Issues

See the issues page for up-to date open issues, or to report a problem.

  • Long runtime of MBG with very high HiFi coverage (>200x). We recommend downsampling to 100x.
  • Lost heterozygosity in simple-sequence repeats in low-heterozygosity samples. When there is no other variation within at most 1 HiFi read length away, the simple sequence repeat difference will be ignored and a consensus of both haplotypes is produced. This will be addressed in a future release.

Legal

See the README.licenses file and individual source code files for details.

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