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
Milestones
- November 9, 2024 — the version 5.3 is released!
- Summer, 2024 — the total number of QUAST citations exceeded 10,000! See stats for QUAST, QUAST-LG, and MetaQUAST.
- May 17, 2023 — the (currently) last QUAST paper was published in Nucleic Acids Research volume 51, issue W1, pp. W601-W606 (Web Server Issue).
- July 1, 2022 — the core QUAST development has moved to the newly established Gurevich Lab at HIPS/HZI and Saarland University.
- August 31, 2021 — CZI acknowledged QUAST as an essential software tool for biomedicine and supported with a grant (jointly with SPAdes)
- November 2, 2018 — the total number of QUAST downloads exceeded 100,000! According to SourceForge and Bioconda.
- July 13, 2015 — QUAST repositories are open for public access on Github! Command-line tool is here, web interface is here.
- April 15, 2013 — the first QUAST paper was published in Bioinformatics volume 29, issue 8, pp. 1072-1075.