Recycler: detecting plasmids from de novo assembly graphs

Recycler is a tool for extracting cyclical sequences from assembly graphs that are likely to be plasmids, phages, or other mobile elements that are physically separate from their host genomes. It can be applied on isolate, metagenome, and plasmidome graphs.

by Roye Rozov, Aya Brown Kav, David Bogumil, Naama Shterzer, Eran Halperin, Itzhak Mizrahi, and Ron Shamir

Recycler was published in Bioinformatics: here.


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Downloads and detailed usage instructions are available here
Recycler is distributed under the BSD 3 clause license. More information is available here.


Get in touch

For questions or suggestions please contact Roye Rozov.