Welcome to project NARWHAL

NARWHAL, a primary analysis pipeline for NGS data

R.W.W. Brouwer1,2, M.C.G.N. van den Hout1, F.G. Grosveld1 and W.F.J. van IJcken1,*

1)Center for Biomics, Department of Cell biology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2)Netherlands Bioinformatics Center (NBIC), Nijmegen, The Netherlands

• corresponding author

Summary

the NARWHAL software pipeline has been developed to automate the primary analysis of massive parallel sequencing data. NARWHAL has been specifically developed to deal with large num-bers of samples and diverse sequencing applications. NARWHAL performs de-multiplexing, alignment and quality control with a minimum of hands-on time.

Installation instructions

installation instructions are available here.

User guide

The user guide is available here.

House keeping information

Mailing lists

This project provides the following mailing lists.

• ​narwhal-users: a list intended for general discussion on the project.
• ​narwhal-commits: a list that receives source code commit messages.
• ​narwhal-devel: a list intended for discussion among developers (subscription is restricted to registered developers).

Availability

Distributions

Stable distributions are available from the downloads section.

Source access

Anonymous readonly subversion access works as follows:

  svn co https://trac.nbic.nl/svn/narwhal narwhal

Write access is only available to registered developers.

You can become a developer by ​registering yourself if you haven't already done so, and requesting write access on the ​narwhal-users mailing list.

Starting Points

• TracGuide -- Built-in Documentation
• TitleIndex -- A complete list of local wiki pages.
• ​Trac FAQ -- Frequently Asked Questions

Other NBIC software projects

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