QUAST – Quality Assessment Tool for Genome Assemblies
The project aim is to create easy-to-use tools for genome assemblies evaluation and comparison.
Currently, we are working on four tools which are distributed inside one package:
- QUAST for regular genome assemblies
- MetaQUAST for metagenome assemblies
- QUAST-LG for large genome (e.g. mammalian) assemblies
- Icarus for contig alignment visualization
About us:
Key news:
- June 7, 2022 — the version 5.2 is released!
- August 31, 2021 — CZI acknowledged QUAST as an essential software tool for biomedicine and supported with a grant (jointly with SPAdes)
- April 3, 2020 — QUAST web server moved to a new location and working again!
- November 2, 2018 — the total number of QUAST downloads exceeded 100,000! According to SourceForge and Bioconda.
- June 26, 2018 — QUAST-LG paper was published in Bioinformatics volume 34, issue 13, pp. i142-i150 (ISMB 2018 proceedings).
- October 23, 2017 — the version 4.6 is released! Python 3.6 support, speed up, bug fixes and few more!
- July 13, 2015 — QUAST repositories are open for public access on Github! Command-line tool is here, web interface is here.