Dear user,

We are happy to announce that we have released SPAdes 3.14. This release includes such new features as:
- BiosyntheticSPAdes pipeline for identifying Biosynthetic Gene Clusters (BGCs);
- Hybrid transcriptome assembly (Illumina RNA-Seq + Iso-seq / ONT RNA);
- Plasmid assembly from metagenomic datasets;
- New --isolate option that improves assembly quality of standard datasets with high coverage;
- New standalone tools for read filtration based on k-mer coverage and estimating number of unique k-mers in reads;
- Improved SPAligner tool for read-to-graph alignment;
- Major performance improvements and memory consumption reduction in graph construction,simplification procedures and throughout the whole pipeline;
- Several bug-fixes.
Please, consider updating.

SPAdes 3.14.0 is released under GPLv2 and openly available for download from our website cab.spbu.ru/software/spades/

Your comments, bug reports, and suggestions are very welcomed. They will help us to further improve SPAdes. You can look for existing issue on our GitHub repository, create a new one or write us via e-mail: spades.support@cab.spbu.ru. If you have any troubles running SPAdes, please provide us with the files params.txt and spades.log from the output directory.

Best regards,
SPAdes team