The ACE file format is a specification for storing data about genomic contigs. The original ACE format was developed for use with

Consed Consed is a program for viewing, editing, and finishing DNA sequence assemblies. Originally developed for sequence assemblies created with phrap, recent versions also support other sequence assembly programs like Newbler. History Consed was ...

, a program for viewing, editing, and finishing DNA sequence assemblies. ACE files are generated by various assembly programs, including

Phrap Phrap is a widely used program for DNA sequence assembly. It is part of the Phred-Phrap-Consed package. History Phrap was originally developed by Prof. Phil Green for the assembly of cosmids in large-scale cosmid shotgun sequencing within the ...

, CAP3,

Newbler Newbler is a software package for '' de novo'' DNA sequence assembly. It is designed specifically for assembling sequence data generated by the 454 GS-series of pyrosequencing platforms sold by 454 Life Sciences, a Roche Diagnostics company. Usag ...

, Arachne, AMOS (more specifically Minimo) and Tigr Assembler v2.

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ACE format specification

Contig representation in several assembly formats
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