ECHO: A reference-free short-read error correction algorithm

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Software accompaniment to

• Kao, W.-C., Chan, A. H., and Song, Y. S. ECHO: A reference-free short-read error correction algorithm, Genome Research, 21:1181--1192, 2011.
  

Description:
ECHO is an error correction algorithm designed for short-reads from next-generation sequencing platforms such as Illumina's Genome Analyzer II. The algorithm uses a Bayesian framework to improve the quality of the reads in a given data set by employing maximum a posteriori estimation.

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This software is available under the Berkeley Software Distribution License. Please see the "BSD License" file below for further details.

• Source code (version 1.12) (March 21, 2012)
• README
• BSD License

Contact:
If you have any questions about the ECHO software, please contact Andrew H. Chan and Wei-Chun Kao .
The corresponding author for the paper is Yun S. Song .

Mailing list:
You can also subscribe to the ECHO mailing list here. The mailing list will only be used to notify users of updates to the software.