How to extend contigs from single-end reads?

Question

[A_heath]

Hi all,

I have raw sequencing datas of metagenomes and all of them are single-end reads. I would want to prolong/extend contigs. I thought of PRICE (Ruby, JG., et al, 2013) but it only works with paired-end reads. Do you have any recommendation on what software could I use?

Thank you for your much appreciated help in advance!

Have a great day

Answer 1

[GenoMax]

You can take a look at tadpole.sh from BBMap suite. A guide is available here.

[A_heath]

Thank you for your suggestion genomax!

Answer 2

[shelkmike]

There are many such tools. For example:

1. TASR.
2. Mapsembler2.
3. DistributedNucleatingAssembler

[A_heath]

Thank you so much shelkmike!