Fastp

Introduction

Fastp is an ultra-fast all-in-one FASTQ preprocessor (QC/adapters/trimming/filtering/splitting/merging, etc).

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

Versions

• 0.20.1

• 0.23.2

Commands

• fastp

Module

You can load the modules by:

module load biocontainers
module load fastp

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 Fastp on our clusters:

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

module --force purge
ml biocontainers fastp

fastp -i input_1.fastq  -I input_2.fastq -o out.R1.fq.gz -O out.R2.fq.gz