Software
Our lab has written widely used software in microbial genomics such as skani (Nature Methods, 2023), sylph (Nature Biotechnology, 2024), and myloasm (Nature Biotechnology, 2026).
Below is a complete list of software written directly by lab members or supervised by our lab.
savont
GitHub
Amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) from modern long-read amplicon sequencing.
6.8k conda downloads
De novo long-read metagenome assembler, even for noisy sequences.
13k conda downloads
devider
GitHub
Long-read haplotypes for highly heterogeneous sequencing mixtures.
8.1k conda downloads
fairy
GitHub
Fast approximate coverage for metagenomic binning.
8.2k conda downloads
Rapid taxonomic profiling for metagenomic samples through principled k-mer statistics.
38k conda downloads
floria
GitHub
Microbial strain phasing by flow-based MEC haplotyping.
1.6k conda downloads
skani
GitHub
Fast and robust average nucleotide identity by sparse approximate seed chaining.
86k conda downloads
flopp
GitHub
Fast polyploid haplotype phasing for long-read data.
2.3k conda downloads
OPERA-MS
GitHub
Hybrid metagenomic assembler for long and short reads.
Contributions by Jim during his first internship in computational genomics.
Nature Biotechnology, 2019