re-assembling the reference

Question

[niyomiw88]

I am new to working with NGS data. I have a reference genome that was done over a decade ago. I am trying to re-assemble this genome using SPAdes. Any idea how i use the contig.fa file as input for SPAdes?

Answer 1

[swbarnes2]

You need the fastq of reads that went into SPAdes, not its output.