Cutadapt finds and removes adapter sequences, primers, poly-A tails and other types of unwanted sequence from your high-throughput sequencing reads.

• Version: v1.8.1
• Added: June, 2015
• Link: https://github.com/marcelm/cutadapt

module avail cutadapt

Notes from the sysadmin during installation:

$ sudo mkdir -p /export/apps/cutadapt/v1.8.1
$ module load python/2.7.8
$ sudo chown aorth /export/apps/cutadapt/v1.8.1
$ pip install cutadapt --install-option="--prefix=/export/apps/cutadapt/v1.8.1"
$ sudo chown root:root /export/apps/cutadapt/v1.8.1