New SPAdes 3.6.1
Dear user,
We are happy to announce that we have just released SPAdes 3.6.1, which is a bug-fix release of version 3.6. Please consider updating SPAdes.
Your comments, bug reports, and suggestions are very welcomed. They will help us to further improve SPAdes. If you have any troubles running SPAdes, please provide us with the files params.txt and spades.log from the output directory. Address for communications: spades.support@bioinf.spbau.ru.
In addition, we wanted to let you know about the brand new Bioinformatics Specialization on Coursera that started on September 1. The Specialization features six courses and a capstone that will make you into an expert bioinformatician :) The Capstone for this Specialization, developed as a collaboration with scientists at Illumina, will feature various application challenges in Biological Big Data using the popular BaseSpace cloud platform at Illumina. Check out this video to hear Semyon Kruglyak, Senior Director of Informatics at Illumina, explain why he wants to interview you if you excel in this Specialization :) There is also a press release surrounding the start of the Specialization.
In particular, the Bioinformatics Specialization includes extensive coverage of algorithmic ideas behind modern assembly algorithms. In addition, it includes a Bioinformatics Application challenge focusing on practical applications of SPAdes and introducing you to BaseSpace, the Illumina cloud platform that features SPAdes.
We hope that this Specialization will help you to further develop your SPAdes skills so that you will continue using SPAdes as well as the dipSPAdes, truSPADes, metaSPAdes, rnaSPAdes, hybridSPAdes, and plasmidSPAdes tools that we have recently released or will be releasing in fall 2015.
The Specialization has two different learner tracks for each course in the Specialization:
The courses in the Bioinformatics Specialization are as follows:
Best regards,
SPAdes team