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VSEARCH

VSEARCH is a versatile open-source tool for metagenomics. It offers fast searching, clustering, chimera detection, dereplication, subsampling and other operations on nucleotide sequences, and is a common open-source alternative to USEARCH.

License

Free to use and open source under GNU GPLv3.

Available

  • Roihu: 2.22.1, via the bio-apps module.

Usage

VSEARCH is part of the bio-apps collection on Roihu. Load the bio-apps module tree and then the VSEARCH module:

module load bio-apps/v202603
module load vsearch/2.22.1

For example, to cluster sequences at 97% identity:

vsearch --cluster_fast input.fasta --id 0.97 --centroids centroids.fasta --threads 8

Example batch script

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH --job-name=vsearch
#SBATCH --account=<project>
#SBATCH --output=output_%j.txt
#SBATCH --error=errors_%j.txt
#SBATCH --partition=small
#SBATCH --time=04:00:00
#SBATCH --nodes=1
#SBATCH --ntasks=1
#SBATCH --cpus-per-task=8
#SBATCH --mem-per-cpu=2G

module load bio-apps/v202603
module load vsearch/2.22.1

vsearch --cluster_fast input.fasta --id 0.97 --centroids centroids.fasta --threads $SLURM_CPUS_PER_TASK

Replace <project> with your CSC project (for example project_2001234).

See creating a batch job script for Roihu for more information about running batch jobs.

Support

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