Fasttree

Introduction

FastTree infers approximately-maximum-likelihood phylogenetic trees from alignments of nucleotide or protein sequences. FastTree can handle alignments with up to a million of sequences in a reasonable amount of time and memory. For large alignments, FastTree is 100-1,000 times faster than PhyML 3.0 or RAxML 7.

For more information, please check:

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

Home page: http://www.microbesonline.org/fasttree/

Note

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

Versions

Cluster	Version(s)
ANVIL	2.1.10, 2.1.11
BELL	2.1.10, 2.1.11
GAUTSCHI	2.1.10, 2.1.11
NEGISHI	2.1.10, 2.1.11
SCHOLAR	2.1.10, 2.1.11

Commands

• fasttree

• FastTree

• FastTreeMP

Module

You can load the modules by:

module load biocontainers
module load fasttree

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

module --force purge
module biocontainers fasttree

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

module --force purge
module biocontainers fasttree

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

module --force purge
module biocontainers fasttree

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

module --force purge
module biocontainers fasttree

# Your fasttree workflow...

Scholar

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

module --force purge
module biocontainers fasttree

# Your fasttree workflow...