Velvet is a de novo genomic assembler specially designed for short read sequencing technologies, such as Solexa or 454.

Velvet takes short read sequences, removes errors and produces high quality unique contigs. When available, it then uses paired-end read and long read information to retrieve the repeated areas between contigs.

The velvet package is prepared by Debian-med and can be installed on Bio-Linux by typing:

For further details, please see the remote documentation.