_ASSU_ (ASSemblig SSU) is a command line tool written in [Bash](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/) to carry out the reference-guided assembly of small subunit (SSU) 16S ribosomal ribonucleic acid (rRNA) using short high-throughput sequencing (HTS) reads derived from whole genome sequencing of bacteria or archaea strains.
_ASSU_ (ASSembling SSU) is a command line tool written in [Bash](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/) to carry out the reference-guided assembly of small subunit (SSU) 16S ribosomal ribonucleic acid (rRNA) using short high-throughput sequencing (HTS) reads derived from whole genome sequencing of bacteria or archaea strains.
This tool was developed to compensate the failure of several _de novo_ assembly programs to assemble a non-fragmented SSU segment when the sequenced genome contains different 16S rRNA copies with sequence variation, especially when using short HTS reads.
