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-- Description --

Pollux is a platform independent error corrector which targets errors produced by second-generation sequencing technologies.

-- Release --

Pollux 1.0.2 6 June 2015

Fixed a crash when the output directory was missing.

-- Requirements --

Pollux requires a 64 bit Unix-based operating system.

-- Installation --

make

-- Running Pollux --

Pollux's command line arguments can be found by running: ./pollux

Simple correction: ./pollux -i <fastq_reads>

Paired correction: ./pollux -p -i <fastq_reads_1> <fastq_reads_2> -o ouput

-- Contact --

Brendan McConkey: mcconkey@uwaterloo.ca Eric Marinier: eric.marinier@phac-aspc.gc.ca

-- Publication --

Marinier, Eric, Daniel G. Brown, and Brendan J. McConkey. "Pollux: platform independent error correction of single and mixed genomes." BMC Bioinformatics 16.1 (2015): 10.

-- Credits --

The Makefile is derived from yanick.rochon@gmail.com (2010-11-05). (http://stackoverflow.com/users/320700/yanick-rochon)

The source makes use of data structures provided by Simon Howard. (http://c-algorithms.sourceforge.net/)

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