QUAST stands for Quality Assessment Tool for Genome Assemblies.
QUAST evaluates a quality of genome assemblies by computing various metrics and providing nice reports.
You can find all project news and the latest versions of source code and manual at
http://bioinf.spbau.ru/quast.
QUAST paper was published in Bioinfomatics journal on 15 April 2013.
Please help us to make QUAST better by sending your comments, bug reports, and suggestions to quast.support@bioinf.spbau.ru.
- List of contigs: Fasta files with assembled contigs or scaffolds (can be compressed).
- Reference: Fasta file with reference genome (can be compressed).
- Genes: Annotated genes file. GFF, NCBI and plain text formats are supported.
- Operons: Annotated operons file. GFF, NCBI and plain text formats are supported.
- Min contig threshold: Lower threshold for contig length.
- Gene finding: Uses Gene Finding module.
- Genome is an eukaryote: Genome is an eukaryote.
- Estimated reference length: Estimated reference length (for computing NGx metrics without a reference genome) .
- Provided assemblies are scaffolds: Provided assemblies are scaffolds.
- Report: An assessment summary in an interactive HTML file. Detailed metric descriptions can be found in manual.