RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Bandage: interactive visualisation of de novo genome assemblies JF bioRxiv FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory SP 018333 DO 10.1101/018333 A1 Ryan R. Wick A1 Mark B. Schultz A1 Justin Zobel A1 Kathryn E. Holt YR 2015 UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/04/21/018333.abstract AB Summary While de novo assembly graphs contain assembled contigs (nodes), the connections between those contigs (edges) are difficult for users to access. Bandage (a Bioinformatics Application for Navigating De novo Assembly Graphs Easily) is a tool for visualising assembly graphs with connections. Users can zoom in to specific areas of the graph and interact with it by moving nodes, adding labels, changing colours and extracting sequences. BLAST searches can be performed within the Bandage GUI and the hits are displayed as highlights in the graph. By displaying connections between contigs, Bandage presents new possibilities for analysing de novo assemblies that are not possible through investigation of contigs alone.Availability and implementation Source code and binaries are freely available at https://github.com/rrwick/Bandage. Bandage is implemented in C++ and supported on Linux, OS X and Windows.Contact rrwick{at}gmail.comSupplementary information A full feature list and screenshots are available at Bioinformatics online and http://rrwick.github.io/Bandage.