Section: New Software and Platforms

MeDuSa

Functional Description

MeDuSa (Multi-Draft based Scaffolder) is an algorithm for genome scaffolding. It exploits information obtained from a set of (draft or closed) genomes from related organisms to determine the correct order and orientation of the contigs.

• Participants: Emmanuelle Bosi, Sara Brunetti, Pierluigi Crescenzi, Beatrice Donati, Renato Fani, Marco Fondi, Marco Galardini, Pietro Lió, Marie-France Sagot,

• Contact: Pierluigi Crescenzi, Marco Fondi (not Inria)

• URL: http://combo.dbe.unifi.it/medusa