Saturn is a program which allows a sequencing platform to assess the saturation, to predict the yield of distinct reads from deeper sequencing and to adjust the sequencing effort even without any reference genome.
Saturn uses an estimation of reads duplication and an equation model estimating potential errors along with standard saturation.
As sequencing errors introduce new distinct reads and leads to overestimate the complexity of a readset, we modelize them to predict the correct amount of new sequences obtained by additionnal sequencing from a library.
Saturn package is freely available at the following GitHub webpage link.
The bulk of the software is written in Perl / R / C and C++, so it should run fine on most unix machines. If you do run into trouble however, use the following address to contact the developers: saturn@genoscope.cns.fr