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ABySS (large) genomes Solexa, SOLiD Simpson, J. et al. 2008 / 2011 NC-A link
ALLPATHS-LG (large) genomes Solexa, SOLiD Gnerre, S. et al. 2011 OS link
AMOS genomes Sanger, 454 Salzberg, S. et al. 2002? / 2008? OS link
Arapan-M Medium Genomes (e.g. E.coli) All Sahli, M. & Shibuya, T. 2011 / 2012 OS link
Arapan-S Small Genomes (Viruses and Bacteria) All Sahli, M. & Shibuya, T. 2011 / 2012 OS link
Celera WGA Assembler / CABOG (large) genomes Sanger, 454, Solexa Myers, G. et al.; Miller G. et al. 2004 / 2010 OS link
CLC Genomics Workbench & CLC Assembly Cell genomes Sanger, 454, Solexa, SOLiD CLC bio 2008 / 2010 / 2011 C link
Cortex genomes Solexa, SOLiD Iqbal, Z. et al. 2011 OS link
DNA Baser genomes Sanger, 454 Heracle BioSoft SRL 01.2014 C www.DnaBaser.com
DNA Dragon genomes Illumina, SOLiD, Complete Genomics, 454, Sanger SequentiX 2011 C link
DNAnexus genomes Illumina, SOLiD, Complete Genomics DNAnexus 2011 C link
Edena genomes Illumina D. Hernandez, P. François, L. Farinelli, M. Osteras, and J. Schrenzel. 2008/2013 OS link
Euler genomes Sanger, 454 (,Solexa ?) Pevzner, P. et al. 2001 / 2006? (C / NC-A?) link
Euler-sr genomes 454, Solexa Chaisson, MJ. et al. 2008 NC-A link
Forge (large) genomes, EST, metagenomes 454, Solexa, SOLID, Sanger Platt, DM, Evers, D. 2010 OS link
Geneious genomes Sanger, 454, Solexa, Ion Torrent, Complete Genomics, PacBio, Oxford Nanopore, Illumina Biomatters Ltd 2009 / 2013 C link
Graph Constructor (large) genomes Sanger, 454, Solexa, SOLiD Convey Computer Corporation 2011 C link
IDBA (Iterative De Bruijn graph short read Assembler) (large) genomes Sanger,454,Solexa Yu Peng, Henry C. M. Leung, Siu-Ming Yiu, Francis Y. L. Chin 2010 (C / NC-A?) link
LIGR Assembler (derived from TIGR Assembler) genomic Sanger - 2009/ 2012 OS link
MaSuRCA (Maryland Super Read - Celera Assembler) (large) genomes Sanger, Illumina, 454 Aleksey Zimin, Guillaume Marçais, Daniela Puiu, Michael Roberts, Steven L. Salzberg, James A. Yorke 2012 / 2013 OS link
MIRA (Mimicking Intelligent Read Assembly) genomes, ESTs Sanger, 454, Solexa Chevreux, B. 1998 / 2011 OS link
NextGENe (small genomes?) 454, Solexa, SOLiD Softgenetics 2008 C link
Newbler genomes, ESTs 454, Sanger 454/Roche 2009 C link
PADENA genomes 454, Sanger 454/Roche 2010 OS link
PASHA (large) genomes Illumina Liu, Schmidt, Maskell 2011 OS link
Phrap genomes Sanger, 454, Solexa Green, P. 1994 / 2008 C / NC-A link
TIGR Assembler genomic Sanger - 1995 / 2003 OS link
Ray[7] genomes Illumina, mix of Illumina and 454, paired or not Sébastien Boisvert, François Laviolette & Jacques Corbeil. 2010 OS [GNU General Public License] link
Sequencher genomes traditional and next generation sequence data Gene Codes Corporation 1991 / 2009 / 2011 C link
SeqMan NGen (large) genomes, exomes, transcriptomes, metagenomes, ESTs Illumina, ABI SOLiD, Roche 454, Ion Torrent, Solexa, Sanger DNASTAR 2007 / 2011 C link
SGA (large) genomes Illumina, Sanger (Roche 454?, Ion Torrent?) Simpson, J.T. et al. 2011 / 2012 OS link
SHARCGS (small) genomes Solexa Dohm et al. 2007 / 2007 OS link
SOPRA genomes Illumina, SOLiD, Sanger, 454 Dayarian, A. et al. 2010 / 2011 OS link
SparseAssembler (large) genomes Illumina, 454, Ion torrent Ye, C. et al. 2012 / 2012 OS link
SSAKE (small) genomes Solexa (SOLiD? Helicos?) Warren, R. et al. 2007 / 2007 OS link
SOAPdenovo genomes Solexa Li, R. et al. 2009 / 2009 OS link
SPAdes (small) genomes, single-cell Illumina, Solexa Bankevich, A et al. 2012 / 2013 OS link
Staden gap4 package BACs (, small genomes?) Sanger Staden et al. 1991 / 2008 OS link
Taipan (small) genomes Illumina Schmidt, B. et al. 2009 OS link
VCAKE (small) genomes Solexa (SOLiD?, Helicos?) Jeck, W. et al. 2007 / 2007 OS link
Phusion assembler (large) genomes Sanger Mullikin JC, et al. 2003 OS link
Quality Value Guided SRA (QSRA) genomes Sanger, Solexa Bryant DW, et al. 2009 OS link
Velvet (small) genomes Sanger, 454, Solexa, SOLiD Zerbino, D. et al. 2007 / 2009 OS link
*Licences: OS = Open Source; C = Commercial; C / NC-A = Commercial but free for non-commercial and academics; Brackets = unclear, but most likely C / NC-A