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MEGAHIT

single node assembler for large and complex metagenomics NGS reads, such as soil. It makes use of succinct de Bruijn graph (SdBG) to achieve low memory assembly.

Information

Usage

See versions of megahit which are available:

$ module avail megahit

Load one version into your environment and run it:

$ module load megahit/1.2.9
$ megahit -h

Installation

Notes from the sysadmin during installation:

$ cd /tmp
$ wget https://github.com/voutcn/megahit/releases/download/v1.2.9/MEGAHIT-1.2.9-Linux-x86_64-static.tar.gz
$ tar xf MEGAHIT-1.2.9-Linux-x86_64-static.tar.gz
$ sudo mkdir -p /export/apps/megahit/1.2.9/bin
$ sudo cp -r MEGAHIT-1.2.9-Linux-x86_64-static/bin/megahit* /export/apps/megahit/1.2.9/bin