Estimating needed memory for a mira assembly project
When called from the command line, it will ask a number of questions and then print out an estimate of the amount of RAM needed to assemble the project. Take this estimate with a grain of salt, depending on the sequences properties, variations in the estimate can be +/- 30% for bacteria and 'simple' eukaryotes. The higher the number of repeats is, the more likely you will need to restrict memory usage in some way or another.
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A more extensive documentation is provided in the mira-doc package and can be found at /usr/share/doc/mira-assembler/DefinitiveGuideToMIRA.html.
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The author of the mira code is Bastien Chevreux <[email protected]>
This manual page was written by Andreas Tille <[email protected]> but can be freely used for any other distribution.