Bowtie2

Introduction

Bowtie 2 is an ultrafast and memory-efficient tool for aligning sequencing reads to long reference sequences. It is particularly good at aligning reads of about 50 up to 100s or 1,000s of characters, and particularly good at aligning to relatively long (e.g. mammalian) genomes. Bowtie 2 indexes the genome with an FM Index to keep its memory footprint small: for the human genome, its memory footprint is typically around 3.2 GB. Bowtie 2 supports gapped, local, and paired-end alignment modes.

For more information, please check:

BioContainers: https://biocontainers.pro/tools/bowtie2

Home page: https://github.com/BenLangmead/bowtie2

Note

Please follow the recommended citation guidelines from the developers when you use the tool in research.

Versions

Cluster	Version(s)
ANVIL	2.4.2, 2.5.1
BELL	2.4.2, 2.5.1
GAUTSCHI	2.4.2, 2.5.1
NEGISHI	2.4.2, 2.5.1
SCHOLAR	2.4.2, 2.5.1

Commands

• bowtie2

• bowtie2-build

• bowtie2-inspect

Module

You can load the modules by:

module load biocontainers
module load bowtie2

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 bowtie2 on our clusters:

Anvil

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH -A myallocation     # Allocation name
#SBATCH -p wholenode        # Partition name
#SBATCH -t 1:00:00
#SBATCH -N 1
#SBATCH -n 1
#SBATCH --job-name=bowtie2
#SBATCH --mail-type=FAIL,BEGIN,END
#SBATCH --error=%x-%J-%u.err
#SBATCH --output=%x-%J-%u.out

module --force purge
module biocontainers bowtie2

# Your bowtie2 workflow...

Bell, Gautschi, or Negishi

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH -A mygroup     # Group name
#SBATCH -p cpu         # Partition name
#SBATCH -q normal      # QOS name (optional)
#SBATCH -t 1:00:00
#SBATCH -N 1
#SBATCH -n 1
#SBATCH --job-name=bowtie2
#SBATCH --mail-type=FAIL,BEGIN,END
#SBATCH --error=%x-%J-%u.err
#SBATCH --output=%x-%J-%u.out

module --force purge
module biocontainers bowtie2

# Your bowtie2 workflow...

Gautschi-AI

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH -A mygroup     # Group name
#SBATCH -p ai          # Partition name
#SBATCH --gres=gpu:1   # Number of GPUs
#SBATCH -q normal      # QOS name (optional)
#SBATCH -t 1:00:00
#SBATCH -N 1
#SBATCH -n 1
#SBATCH --job-name=bowtie2
#SBATCH --mail-type=FAIL,BEGIN,END
#SBATCH --error=%x-%J-%u.err
#SBATCH --output=%x-%J-%u.out

module --force purge
module biocontainers bowtie2

# Your bowtie2 workflow...

Gilbreth

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH -A mygroup     # Group name
#SBATCH -p a100        # Partition name
#SBATCH --gres=gpu:1   # Number of GPUs
#SBATCH --mem=2G       # Memory
#SBATCH -q normal      # QOS name (optional)
#SBATCH -t 1:00:00
#SBATCH -N 1
#SBATCH -n 1
#SBATCH --job-name=bowtie2
#SBATCH --mail-type=FAIL,BEGIN,END
#SBATCH --error=%x-%J-%u.err
#SBATCH --output=%x-%J-%u.out

module --force purge
module biocontainers bowtie2

# Your bowtie2 workflow...

Scholar

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH -A queue     # Queue name
#SBATCH -t 1:00:00
#SBATCH -N 1
#SBATCH -n 1
#SBATCH --job-name=bowtie2
#SBATCH --mail-type=FAIL,BEGIN,END
#SBATCH --error=%x-%J-%u.err
#SBATCH --output=%x-%J-%u.out

module --force purge
module biocontainers bowtie2

# Your bowtie2 workflow...