Racon as a library

[iqbal-lab]

Hi there

Is there any way to call racon as a C++ library ? I can imagine situations where this would be super useful

[rvaser]

Hello Zamin, here it is: https://github.com/lbcb-sci/racon/tree/library. If you want to see an example how to integrate it check out de novo assembler https://github.com/lbcb-sci/raven. Just note that the library uses a minimap clone with parameters set for long reads, you cannot use your own overlaps (you only pass query/target sequences), and quality values of a FASTQ file are compressed block-wise. We will enable a more parameterized library version sometime in the future on the master branch.

Best regards, Robert

[iqbal-lab]

Thanks so much for this!!