Introduction to De Novo Genome Assembly

Exercises for this demo will be carried out on a virtual machine running Ubuntu. Ubuntu is an open source distribution of the Linux operating system.

To run the virtual machine, you will use the program VirtualBox, which can be downloaded at the following website: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

The virtual machine image has been prebuilt with the necessary software. The virtual machine image can be downloaded from the following link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxoXt7fkRSWvVGo3eUdQRXNyb0U

Detailed instructions for setting up the demo are available in genome_assembly_vm.pdf, and the worksheet for carrying out the demo is in genome_assembly_demo.pdf