Gap5

Gap5 is a DNA sequence assembly visualiser and editing tool.

Gap5 permits low level base by base editing as well as larger scale contig rearrangements such as complementing, joining and breaking apart contigs.

About Gap5

Input and outputs supported include SAM, BAM and CRAM file formats along with the less used formats CAF and ACE.

Gap5 is part of the Staden Package, a broad set of software tools originally developed for many years by Rodger Staden at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge UK.

Downloads

Go to the https://sourceforge.net/projects/staden/ project page and follow the links to files -> staden. (https://sourceforge.net/projects/staden/files/staden/).

Gap5 is one of the tools included in the Staden Package.

Further information

BSD Open Source License.

Contact

If you need help or have any queries, please contact us using the details below.

James Bonfield jkb@sanger.ac.uk


Sanger Institute Contributors

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James Bonfield

Principal Software Developer

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Andrew Whitwham

Senior Software Developer

 
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