mothur offers the ability to go from raw sequences to the generation of visualization tools to describe α and β diversity.
See versions of mothur which are available:
$ module avail mothur
Load and run one version of mothur:
$ module load mothur/1.44.1 $ mothur
Notes from the sysadmin during installation:
$ cd /tmp $ wget https://github.com/mothur/mothur/releases/download/v.1.44.1/Mothur.linux.zip $ unzip Mothur.linux.zip $ sudo cp -r mothur /export/apps/mothur/1.44.1