QUAST 4.5

QUAST now can plot Feature-Response Curves (http://amos.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/FRCurve). These plots are currently available for number of misassemblies and genes/operons. MetaQUAST processing is parallelized by references, which make it much faster. New type of contigs is added to Icarus viewers, Contig Info panel is also improved there.

For the full list of new features and fixed bugs, see http://quast.bioinf.spbau.ru/CHANGES.

QUAST 4.4

QUAST now supports Python3! Icarus gets new buttons for expanding overlapped alignments (Contig Alignment Viewers) and additional colors for specific types of contigs. Several new options and metrics are added and a handful of bugs are fixed.

For the full list of new features and fixed bugs, see http://quast.bioinf.spbau.ru/CHANGES.

QUAST 4.3

QUAST package is now supplied with convenient setup.py installer. Icarus gets two major updates in this version: predicted genes (by GeneMark or Glimmer) are added to both types of viewers; read coverage panels become zoomable. Many embedded tools are updated of substituted with better alternatives.

For the full list of new features and fixed bugs, see http://quast.bioinf.spbau.ru/CHANGES.

QUAST 4.2

Icarus now has live search, physical read coverage plot and many other cool features! Also we added read coverage histograms for assemblies with SPAdes/Velvet-like contig naming style to QUAST output (you do not need to specify reads for getting them). Besides that, the tool now has 5 more options and 3 new metrics!

For the full list of new features and fixed bugs, see http://quast.bioinf.spbau.ru/CHANGES.

QUAST 4.1

QUAST 4.1 includes several major updates for Icarus, especially for the contig size viewer. In addition, Nucmer aligner is substituted by more efficient E-MEM aligner (for Linux only), which makes QUAST even faster than before!

For the full list of new features and fixed bugs, see http://quast.bioinf.spbau.ru/CHANGES.

QUAST 4.0

QUAST 4.0 includes many features and fixed bugs, see http://quast.bioinf.spbau.ru/CHANGES for the full list of changes.

The most notable new feature is Icarus. It is a novel genome visualizer for de novo genome assemblies. The tool is embedded into QUAST and MetaQUAST pipelines. See http://bioinf.spbau.ru/icarus for details and examples of its output.