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Warning!

Puhti and Mahti are being decommissioned in stages, and their storage areas will become fully unavailable from 15 October 2026. Clean up unnecessary files and move any data you need to keep by 31 August 2026. See the Roihu data migration guide for instructions on transferring your data to Roihu.

Puhti scratch is very full: keep only active data there and move or delete everything else. No new Puhti scratch quota will be granted.

Auto-apptainer

Auto-apptainer is a help tool that can be used to add software to a SD Desktop virtual machine. It utilizes a library of Apptainer-based software containers, pre-loaded by CSC. You can suggest a container to be added to the library.

Auto-apptainer is not available by default, but you must install it first using SD Software installer

After that you can launch the tool with command:

auto-apptainer

By default, this lists all the Apptainer packages available for auto-apptainer. From the list you can select the package to be installed.

Alternatively you can add a filtering criteria to the command. In this case only those containers whose name or one of commands that the container provides, matches the search criteria, are listed.

For example command:

auto-apptainer bam

asks the user to choose from two containers: bamtools and bedtools. Bedtools is included as it provides commands bamToBed and bamToFasta that match the search criteria in this case.

Once a container is selected, one or more Apptainer wrapper-based commands are created to directory: /shared-directory/sd-tools/bin. These commands can mostly be used like natively installed commands. For example after installing the Bamtools container, Bamtools can be started with command:

bamtools

Below you can find a list of software that can be installed with auto-apptainer. The list can be outdated. You can get an up-to-date list by running command auto-apptainer in SD Desktop.

  • allelecount-4.2.1
  • bamtools_2.5.2--hd03093a_1
  • bcftools_1.20
  • bedtools_2.31.0
  • cnvkit-0.9.12
  • deepvariant_1.5.0
  • EIG_8.0.0
  • hisat2_2.2.1--h87f3376_5
  • htseq-2.0.3
  • image-to-text
  • kneaddata-0.12.0
  • kneaddata-0.12.1
  • mpv-0.34.1
  • p7zio
  • pdf2searchablepdf
  • picard
  • python3-for-medimaging
  • samtools_1.17-2023-06
  • seqtk_v1.3-1-deb_cv1
  • stringtie_2.2.0--ha025227_1
  • taguette.info
  • trimgalore-0.6.9
  • vcftools_v0.1.16-1
  • vsearch_2.23.0
  • weeder_2.0--h9f5acd7_7