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Kaiju

Kaiju is a program for the taxonomic classification of high-throughput sequencing reads, e.g., Illumina or Roche/454, from whole-genome sequencing of metagenomic DNA.

Information

Usage

See which versions of kaiju are available:

$ module avail kaiju

Load one version into your environment and run it:

$ module load kaiju/1.8.2
$ kaiju

Installation

Notes from the sysadmin during installation:

$ cd /tmp
$ wget https://github.com/bioinformatics-centre/kaiju/releases/download/v1.8.2/kaiju-v1.8.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
$ tar xf kaiju-v1.8.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
$ sudo mkdir -p /export/apps/kaiju/1.8.2
$ sudo cp -r kaiju-v1.8.2-linux-x86_64-static/* /export/apps/kaiju/1.8.2