Kmc

Introduction

Kmc is a tool for efficient k-mer counting and filtering of reads based on k-mer content.

For more information, please check its website: https://biocontainers.pro/tools/kmc and its home page on Github.

Versions

  • 3.2.1

Commands

  • kmc

  • kmc_dump

  • kmc_tools

Module

You can load the modules by:

module load biocontainers
module load kmc

Example job

Warning

Using #!/bin/sh -l as shebang in the slurm job script will cause the failure of some biocontainer modules. Please use #!/bin/bash instead.

To run Kmc on our clusters:

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH -A myallocation     # Allocation name
#SBATCH -t 1:00:00
#SBATCH -N 1
#SBATCH -n 1
#SBATCH --job-name=kmc
#SBATCH --mail-type=FAIL,BEGIN,END
#SBATCH --error=%x-%J-%u.err
#SBATCH --output=%x-%J-%u.out

module --force purge
ml biocontainers kmc

kmc -k27 seq.fastq 27mers .