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

• Version: 5.0
• Added: June, 2015
• Updated: April, 2025
• Link: https://github.com/marcelm/cutadapt

See available versions:

$ module avail cutadapt

Load one version into your environment and run it:

$ module load cutadapt/5.0
$ cutadapt

Notes from the sysadmin during installation:

$ module load python/3.10 
$ sudo mkdir -p /export/apps/cutadapt/5.0
$ sudo chown aorth:aorth /export/apps/cutadapt/5.0
$ python -m venv /export/apps/cutadapt/5.0
$ python -m pip install --upgrade pip wheel setuptools
$ python -m pip install cutadapt==5.0
$ sudo chown -R root:root /export/apps/cutadapt/5.0