Next Friday, June 24, we’ll discuss this paper:

Li et al: MEGAHIT: an ultra-fast single-node solution for large and complex metagenomics assembly via succinct de Bruijn graph. 2015 Bioinformatics.

Megahit is an assembler for metagenomics data. It was developed to work on large, complex datasets.  It’s available from github, and doesn’t do any pre-processing for you.