# velvet

## Summary

+ **Module Name:** velvet
+ **Support Level:** Secondary Support
+ **Software Access Level:** Open Access
+ **Home Page:** [http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~zerbino/velvet/](http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~zerbino/velvet/)

## Software Description

Velvet is a software for De Novo Short Read Assembly Using De Bruijn
Graphs.It can be used for Solexa and 454 sequencing data assembly.
## General Linux

To load this software in a Linux environment run the command(s):

    module load velvet

Package velvet contains two programs:

    velveth

and

    velvetg

Velveth is the program that creates hash tables that will be used by

    velvetg

to assemble the sequences. To run this software run the command(s):

    velveth

or

    velvetg

Home Page: <http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~zerbino/velvet/>