Scythe uses a Naive Bayesian approach to classify contaminant substrings in sequence reads. It considers quality information, which can make it robust in picking out 3'-end adapters, which often include poor quality bases.

• Version: 0.994-beta
• Added: March, 2015
• Link: https://github.com/vsbuffalo/scythe

$ module avail scythe

$ module load scythe
$ scythe

Notes from the sysadmin during installation:

cd /tmp
git clone git@github.com:vsbuffalo/scythe.git
cd scythe
scl enable devtoolset-2 bash
CC=clang make all
sudo mkdir -p /export/apps/scythe/0.994-beta
sudo cp scythe /export/apps/scythe/0.994-beta