Contig Assebly into Scaffold

Question

[ashaneev07]

Hiii.... Which tool is much better for contigs assembly to create scaffolds? Need your suggestions. Thank you.

[lieven.sterck]

this is a very broad question. Adding more detail will increase the change of getting a decent (== useful) answer.

Eg. try to add: species? data types? things like that. (cfr: How To Ask Good Questions On Technical And Scientific Forums )

[colindaven]

Briefly, you need long range information. Have a read about mate pairs or long jumping distance libraries. However, long reads by themselves - particulary PacBio or Oxford Nanopore - will give you the most contiguous assemblies. Polishing these to remove erros can be challenging though.