LICENSE

SPADES: SAINT-PETERSBURG GENOME ASSEMBLER
Copyright (c) 2023-2024 SPAdes team
Copyright (c) 2015-2022 Saint Petersburg State University
Copyright (c) 2011-2014 Saint Petersburg Academic University

SPAdes is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2,
dated June 1991, as published by the Free Software Foundation.

SPAdes is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.

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SPAdes
Genome, metagenome and transcriptome assembler for second-generation sequencing technologies
Version: see VERSION

Currently developed and maintained by the SPAdes team, an international group of researchers with no single affiliation or connections to previous development institutes.
Previously developed at Center for Algorithmic Biotechnology, Institute of Translational Biomedicine, St. Petersburg State University.
Previously developed at Algorithmic Biology Lab of St. Petersburg Academic University of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Current SPAdes contributors:

    Anton Korobeynikov,
    Dmitriy Meleshko,
    Andrey Prjibelski,
    Ivan Tolstoganov,
    Alla Lapidus

Also contributed:

    Max Alekseyev,
    Dmitry Antipov,
    Anton Bankevich,
    Anna Berdichevskaya,
    Elena Bushmanova,
    Mikhail Dvorkin,
    Vasisliy Ershov,
    Yuriy Gorshkov,
    Alexey Gurevich,
    Anton Kleschin,
    Alexander Kulikov,
    Olga Kunyavskaya,
    Valery Lesin,
    Sergey Nikolenko,
    Sergey Nurk,
    Son Pham,
    Alexey Pyshkin,
    Mike Rayko,
    Yana Safonova,
    Vladislav Saveliev,
    Alexander Shlemov,
    Alexander Sirotkin,
    Yakov Sirotkin,
    Artem Tarasov,
    Glenn Tesler,
    Irina Vasilinetc,
    Nikolay Vyahhi,
    Pavel Pevzner

Installation instructions and manual can be found at:
https://github.com/ablab/spades

Web page for communication: https://github.com/ablab/spades/issues


References:

Prjibelski, A., Antipov, D., Meleshko, D., Lapidus, A. and Korobeynikov, A., 2020. Using SPAdes de novo assembler. Current Protocols in Bioinformatics, 70(1), p.e102.