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. 2025 Jan 24;116(3):335–343. doi: 10.1093/jhered/esaf002

Table 1.

Assembly pipeline and software used. Software citations are listed in the text.

Assembly Software and any non-default options Version
Filtering PacBio HiFi adapters HiFiAdapterFilt Commit 64d1c7b
K-mer counting Meryl (k = 21) 1
Estimation of genome size and heterozygosity GenomeScope 2
De novo assembly (contiging) HiFiasm (HiC Mode, –primary, output p_ctg.hap1, p_ctg.hap2) 0.16.1-r375
Scaffolding
 Omni-C data alignment Arima Genomics Mapping Pipeline Commit 2e74ea4
 Omni-C Scaffolding SALSA (-DNASE, -i 20, -p yes) 2
 Gap closing YAGCloser (-mins 2 -f 20 -mcc 2 -prt 0.25 -eft 0.2 -pld 0.2) Commit 0e34c3b
Omni-C Contact map generation
 Short-read alignment BWA-MEM (-5SP) 0.7.17-r1188
 SAM/BAM processing samtools 1.11
 SAM/BAM filtering pairtools 0.3.0
 Pairs indexing pairix 0.3.7
 Matrix generation cooler 0.8.10
 Matrix balancing hicExplorer (hicCorrectmatrix correct --filterThreshold -2 4) 3.6
 Contact map visualization HiGlass 2.1.11
PretextMap 0.1.4
PretextView 0.1.5
PretextSnapshot 0.0.3
 Manual curation tools Rapid curation pipeline (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Genome Reference Informatics Team) Commit 4ddca450
Genome quality assessment
 Basic assembly metrics QUAST (--est-ref-size) 5.0.2
 Assembly completeness BUSCO (-m geno, -l metazoa) 5.0.0
Merqury 2020-01-29
Contamination screening
 Local alignment tool BLAST+ (-db nt, -outfmt “6 qseqid staxids bitscore std,” -max_target_seqs 1, -max_hsps 1, -evalue 1e-25) 2.15
 General contamination screening BlobToolKit (HiFi coverage, BUSCO=metazoa, NCBI Taxa ID=2067768) 2.3.3
Mitochondrial assembly
 Mitochondrial genome assembly MitoHiFi (-r, -p 90, -o 1, -a animal) Reference: Arion flagellus (NCBI:NC_073101.1) 2.2
Repeat analysis
 Identification of repeat elements RepeatModeler (Dfam database (version 3.8)) 2.0.6
 Annotation of repeat elements RepeatMasker 4.1.7-p1
 Annotation of tandem repeats TRF 4.09.1