Phrap is a program for assembling shotgun DNA sequence data.
Among other features :
it allows use of the entire read and not just the trimmed high quality part,
it uses a combination of user-supplied and internally computed data quality information to improve assembly accuracy in the presence of repeats,
it constructs the contig sequence as a mosaic of the highest quality read segments rather than a consensus,
it provides extensive assembly information to assist in trouble-shooting assembly problems,
and it handles large datasets.
Phrap is avalaible on the MIG platform.