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scaffolder-tools

Scaffolder-tools is a project mainly written in Ruby, based on the MIT license.

Set of tools for manipulating sequence assemblies specified by yaml configuration files.

== Synopsis

A command line tool for processing genome scaffolds defined by the genome scaffolder API.

== Feature List

  • Output scaffold to fasta format.
  • Test inserts do not overlap in the scaffold.

== Installing

Ruby and RubyGems are required to use scaffolder. Scaffolder tools is installed on the command line using:

$ gem install scaffolder-tools

== Documentation

Command line usage can be found by running the following:

$ scaffolder help

A unix man page is available for each scaffolder command by typing:

$ scaffolder help COMMAND

== Contact

Scaffolder was developed by Michael Barton (www.michaelbarton.me.uk). The website for scaffolder is at http://next.gs and a {twitter feed for updates}[http://twitter.com/nxtgs] is available. There is a {Google group}[http://groups.google.com/group/scaffolder] for questions and comments. The source code is available on github[http://github.com/scaffolder]. Bug reports and feature requests may also be made there.

== Copyright

Scaffolder © 2010 by Michael Barton. Scaffolder is licensed under the MIT license. Please see the LICENSE document for more information.