BUSCO: assessing genome assembly and annotation completeness with single-copy orthologs

Bioinformatics. 2015 Oct 1;31(19):3210-2. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv351. Epub 2015 Jun 9.

Abstract

Motivation: Genomics has revolutionized biological research, but quality assessment of the resulting assembled sequences is complicated and remains mostly limited to technical measures like N50.

Results: We propose a measure for quantitative assessment of genome assembly and annotation completeness based on evolutionarily informed expectations of gene content. We implemented the assessment procedure in open-source software, with sets of Benchmarking Universal Single-Copy Orthologs, named BUSCO.

Availability and implementation: Software implemented in Python and datasets available for download from http://busco.ezlab.org.

Contact: evgeny.zdobnov@unige.ch

Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Computational Biology / methods*
  • Gene Dosage / genetics*
  • Genome*
  • Genomics / methods*
  • Humans
  • Molecular Sequence Annotation / methods*
  • Software*