Table 1.

Comparison among SIMBA and other software

	SIMBA	Galaxy	CLC	Lasergene
User-friendly interface	X	X	X	X
De novo assembly	X	X	X	X
De novo assembly with multiple algorithms	X	X
Scaffolding by reference	X	X	X	X
Assembly quality evaluation	X
Scaffolding by optical mapping	X
Gap closing	X	X	X	X
Genome visualization	X
Free and open source	X	X
Web tool	X	X
Multiple users in parallel	X	X
Free sequence edition			X	X
Annotation support		X	X	X