Seqtk

Introduction

Seqtk is a fast and lightweight tool for processing sequences in the FASTA or FASTQ format. It seamlessly parses both FASTA and FASTQ files which can also be optionally compressed by gzip.

For more information, please check:

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

Home page: https://github.com/lh3/seqtk

Note

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

Versions

Cluster	Version(s)
BELL	1.4
NEGISHI	1.4

Commands

• seqtk

Module

You can load the modules by:

module load biocontainers
module load seqtk

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

module --force purge
module biocontainers seqtk

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

module --force purge
module biocontainers seqtk

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

module --force purge
module biocontainers seqtk

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

module --force purge
module biocontainers seqtk

# Your seqtk workflow...

Scholar

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

module --force purge
module biocontainers seqtk

# Your seqtk workflow...