RT Journal
A1 Nurk, Sergey
A1 Meleshko, Dmitry
A1 Korobeynikov, Anton
A1 Pevzner, Pavel A.
T1 metaSPAdes: a new versatile metagenomic assembler
JF Genome Research 
JO Genome Research 
YR 2017 
FD May 01 
VO 27 
IS 5 
SP 824 
OP 834 
DO 10.1101/gr.213959.116 
UL http://genome.cshlp.org/content/27/5/824.abstract 
AB While metagenomics has emerged as a technology of choice for analyzing bacterial populations, the assembly of metagenomic data remains challenging, thus stifling biological discoveries. Moreover, recent studies revealed that complex bacterial populations may be composed from dozens of related strains, thus further amplifying the challenge of metagenomic assembly. metaSPAdes addresses various challenges of metagenomic assembly by capitalizing on computational ideas that proved to be useful in assemblies of single cells and highly polymorphic diploid genomes. We benchmark metaSPAdes against other state-of-the-art metagenome assemblers and demonstrate that it results in high-quality assemblies across diverse data sets.