Cutadapt

Introduction

Cutadapt finds and removes adapter sequences, primers, poly-A tails and other types of unwanted sequence from your high-throughput sequencing reads.

For more information, please check:
BioContainers: https://biocontainers.pro/tools/cutadapt
Home page: https://cutadapt.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

Note

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

Versions

Cluster	Version(s)
ANVIL	3.4, 3.7
BELL	3.4, 3.7
GAUTSCHI	3.4, 3.7
NEGISHI	3.4, 3.7
SCHOLAR	3.4, 3.7

Commands

cutadapt

Module

You can load the modules by:

module load biocontainers
module load cutadapt

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 cutadapt 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=cutadapt
#SBATCH --mail-type=FAIL,BEGIN,END
#SBATCH --error=%x-%J-%u.err
#SBATCH --output=%x-%J-%u.out

module --force purge
module biocontainers cutadapt

# Your cutadapt 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=cutadapt
#SBATCH --mail-type=FAIL,BEGIN,END
#SBATCH --error=%x-%J-%u.err
#SBATCH --output=%x-%J-%u.out

module --force purge
module biocontainers cutadapt

# Your cutadapt 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=cutadapt
#SBATCH --mail-type=FAIL,BEGIN,END
#SBATCH --error=%x-%J-%u.err
#SBATCH --output=%x-%J-%u.out

module --force purge
module biocontainers cutadapt

# Your cutadapt 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=cutadapt
#SBATCH --mail-type=FAIL,BEGIN,END
#SBATCH --error=%x-%J-%u.err
#SBATCH --output=%x-%J-%u.out

module --force purge
module biocontainers cutadapt

# Your cutadapt workflow...

Scholar

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

module --force purge
module biocontainers cutadapt

# Your cutadapt workflow...