CANU(1)

💖 CANU 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the CANU(1) page of the General Commands Manual — this is literally the glow-up era of genome assembly and i'm so excited to walk you through it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

canu — single molecule sequence assembler for genomes 🌸

like. that's the whole vibe. it assembles genomes. from single molecule reads. iconic.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

canu [options] files...

so you just hand it some files... and whatever options you're feeling that day, and it goes 💅

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

okay so real talk: Canu is a fork of the Celera Assembler, and it was built specifically for high-noise single-molecule sequencing — think the PacBio RS II or the Oxford Nanopore MinION. that's the whole point of it, no cap. noisy reads? it eats them for breakfast. 🍓

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -options — shows you the full list of parameters. like the entire menu. every single one. go wild bestie 👑

and pookie, if you just want a lil baby summary — the quick-and-dirty usage rundown — just call canu with no arguments at all. nothing. zero. empty hands. it'll give you the short version. ✨

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

mhap(1) — go look at that one too, iykyk 😌

and that's the tea, bestie 🧚 this page is from October 2016, and it lives under the CANU(1) title in the General Commands Manual — so if you ever forget where you read all this, that's the receipt 💖✨ slay, and go assemble something gorgeous 🦋🌸