autocycler
A tool for generating consensus long-read assemblies for bacterial genomes
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A tool for generating consensus long-read assemblies for bacterial genomes
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- Stars: 174
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 15
- Open Issues: 0
- Releases: 10
Metadata Files
README.md

Autocycler is a tool for generating consensus long-read assemblies for bacterial genomes. It is the successor to Trycycler, and for most users, I recommend Autocycler over Trycycler.
For installation instructions, usage, deeper explanations and more, head over to the Autocycler wiki!
If you use Autocycler in your research, please cite the following paper:
Wick RR, Howden BP, Stinear TP (2025). Autocycler: long-read consensus assembly for bacterial genomes. Bioinformatics. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btaf474.
Owner
- Name: Ryan Wick
- Login: rrwick
- Kind: user
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Company: University of Melbourne
- Website: https://rrwick.github.io
- Twitter: rrwick
- Repositories: 24
- Profile: https://github.com/rrwick
I'm a bioinformatician with a focus on bacterial genome assembly.
Citation (CITATION.cff)
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title: "Autocycler"
authors:
- family-names: "Wick"
given-names: "Ryan R"
orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8349-0778"
url: "https://github.com/rrwick/Autocycler"
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type: article
authors:
- family-names: "Wick"
given-names: "Ryan R"
orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8349-0778"
- family-names: "Howden"
given-names: "Benjamin P"
orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0237-1473"
- family-names: "Stinear"
given-names: "Timothy P"
orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0150-123X"
title: "Autocycler: long-read consensus assembly for bacterial genomes"
journal: "bioRxiv"
year: 2025
month: 5
doi: "10.1101/2025.05.12.653612"
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- Issues event: 52
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Last synced: 6 months ago
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- Total issues: 32
- Total pull requests: 11
- Average time to close issues: 2 days
- Average time to close pull requests: 1 day
- Total issue authors: 28
- Total pull request authors: 9
- Average comments per issue: 0.91
- Average comments per pull request: 0.36
- Merged pull requests: 4
- Bot issues: 0
- Bot pull requests: 0
Past Year
- Issues: 32
- Pull requests: 11
- Average time to close issues: 2 days
- Average time to close pull requests: 1 day
- Issue authors: 28
- Pull request authors: 9
- Average comments per issue: 0.91
- Average comments per pull request: 0.36
- Merged pull requests: 4
- Bot issues: 0
- Bot pull requests: 0
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formulae.brew.sh: autocycler
Tool for generating consensus long-read assemblies for bacterial genomes
- Homepage: https://github.com/rrwick/Autocycler
- License: GPL-3.0-or-later
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Latest release: 0.5.2
published 6 months ago
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