NAME

       mira - The Genome and EST Sequence Assembly System

DESCRIPTION

       The  mira  genome  fragment  assembler  is a specialised assembler for sequencing projects
       classified as 'hard' due to high number of similar repeats. For  expressed  sequence  tags
       (ESTs)  transcripts,  miraEST  is  specialised on reconstructing pristine mRNA transcripts
       while  detecting  and  classifying  single  nucleotide  polymorphisms  (SNP)  occuring  in
       different variations thereof.

       The  assembler is routinely used for such various tasks as mutation detection in different
       cell types, similarity analysis of transcripts between organisms, and pristine assembly of
       sequences from various sources for oligo design in clinical microarray experiments.

       The purpose of the mira executable is to assemble sequencing data.

SYNOPSIS

       mira [OPTION] manifest_file [manifest_file] ...

OPTIONS

       -c / --cwd=directory
              Change working directory

       -r / --resume
              Resume an interrupted assembly

       -h / --help
              Print short help and exit

       -v / --version
              Print version and exit

SEE ALSO

       A  more  extensive  documentation  is provided in the mira-doc package and can be found at
       /usr/share/doc/mira-assembler/DefinitiveGuideToMIRA.html.

       You can also subscribe one of the MIRA mailing lists at

              http://www.chevreux.org/mira_mailinglists.html

       After subscribing, mail general questions to the MIRA talk mailing list:

              mira_talk@freelists.org

BUGS

       To report bugs or ask for features, please use the new ticketing system at:

              http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mira-assembler/

AUTHOR

       The author of the mira code is Bastien Chevreux <bach@chevreux.org>

       This manual page was written by Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> but can  be  freely  used
       for any other distribution.