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Table 1 Comparison among SIMBA and other software

From: SIMBA: a web tool for managing bacterial genome assembly generated by Ion PGM sequencing technology

 

SIMBA

Galaxy

CLC

Lasergene

User-friendly interface

X

X

X

X

De novo assembly

X

X

X

X

De novo assembly with multiple algorithms

X

X

  

Scaffolding by reference

X

X

X

X

Assembly quality evaluation

X

   

Scaffolding by optical mapping

X

   

Gap closing

X

X

X

X

Genome visualization

X

   

Free and open source

X

X

  

Web tool

X

X

  

Multiple users in parallel

X

X

  

Free sequence edition

  

X

X

Annotation support

 

X

X

X