BBMerge

Merges overlapping or non-overlapping pairs into a single-reads. BBMerge is useful in amplicon studies, as clustering and consensus are far easier with single reads than paired reads, and also in assembly, where longer reads allow the use of longer k-mers (for k-mer-based assemblers) or fewer comparisons (for overlap-based assemblers). This package is also capable of error-correcting the overlapping portion of reads without merging them, as well as merging non-overlapping reads, if enough coverage is available.