GRAbB (Genome Region Assembly by Baiting) is a program designed to assemble selected regions of the genome or transcriptome using reference sequences and NGS data. The latest version of GRAbB can be found in the GitHub repo.

Selective assembly of genomic regions

Assembling only a selective part of the genomic or transcriptomic data makes the analysis computationally less demanding. This has multiple advantages: i) less time is required for the analysis, ii) even less powerful computers can handle the analysis and iii) less or no unnecessary sequence information is generated besides the region that you are interested in, so you don’t have to sift through the whole genome to find the gene or region that you need.