SortMeRNA

Introduction

SortMeRNA is a local sequence alignment tool for filtering, mapping and clustering.

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

Versions

  • 2.1b

  • 4.3.4

Commands

  • sortmerna

Module

You can load the modules by:

module load biocontainers
module load sortmerna

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 SortMeRNA on our clusters:

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

module --force purge
ml biocontainers sortmerna

sortmerna --ref silva-bac-16s-id90.fasta,silva-bac-16s-db \
    --reads set2_environmental_study_550_amplicon.fasta \
    --fastx --aligned Test