Celera Assembly Output

Question

[pmenzel]

Hi

I am assembling 454 reads from a metagenome with Celera and I am new to this software, so I was wondering how I get the maximum sequence data from the various fasta output files without overlap. So clearly I want to join the *.ctg.fasta (contigs) and *.singleton.fasta (unassembled reads), but probably I also should include the *.deg.fasta file? At least accoriding to the manual it sounds like these are not part of the other two files. Would I get the "complete picture" if I use these three files?

thanks, Peter