Meryl

Introduction

Meryl is a genomic k-mer counter (and sequence utility) with nice features.

For more information, please check:
BioContainers: https://biocontainers.pro/tools/meryl
Home page: https://github.com/marbl/meryl

Note

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

Versions

Cluster	Version(s)
ANVIL	1.3
BELL	1.3
GAUTSCHI	1.3
NEGISHI	1.3
SCHOLAR	1.3

Commands

meryl
meryl-analyze
meryl-import
meryl-lookup
meryl-simple

Module

You can load the modules by:

module load biocontainers
module load meryl

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

module --force purge
module biocontainers meryl

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

module --force purge
module biocontainers meryl

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

module --force purge
module biocontainers meryl

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

module --force purge
module biocontainers meryl

# Your meryl workflow...

Scholar

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

module --force purge
module biocontainers meryl

# Your meryl workflow...