Welcome to Mason - The alignment library for your Next Generation Sequencing application

Introduction:

Mason was designed to help Developers and Bioinformatition using the resources every computer offers. Mason include implementations of local and global alignment for the analysis of Next Generation Sequencing Data. This is acchieved by using modern APIs (SSE, OpenCL, CUDA) for CPU and CPU computing.

Availability:

Requirements:

• Some programs require a CUDA able graphics card (here is the list of all usable graphic cards CUDA Cards
• A Linux operating system
• A PC with at least 2 GB of memory

Latest Version Mason 0.0.1 (01^st September 2011):

• Please read the User Manual carefully before including Mason the first time or when you upgrade to the new version!!

Download:

• Source package for Linux are available in gzipped TAR format. The current version of Mason is just tested and released under Linux. Further versions will also be available under Windows and Macs.

Reference:

Note:

• Please, let us know if you download this program by sending an email to {fritz.sedlazeck,arndt.von.haeseler}@univie.ac.at