FLASH, Fast Length Adjustment of SHort reads, is a very accurate fast tool to merge paired-end reads from fragments that are shorter than twice the length of reads. The extended length of reads has a significant positive impact on improvement of genome assemblies.

• Version: 1.2.11
• Added: December, 2014
• Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/flashpage

Show all available versions of flash:

$ module avail flash

Load flash into your environment:

$ module load flash/1.2.11

Get quick help:

$ flash --help

Notes from the sysadmin during installation.

$ wget "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/flashpage/FLASH-1.2.11.tar.gz?r=http%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fflashpage%2F&ts=1418712841&use_mirror=tenet" -O FLASH-1.2.11.tar.gz
$ tar -xvf FLASH-1.2.11.tar.gz
$ cd FLASH-1.2.11
$ make
$ sudo mkdir -p /export/apps/FLASH/1.2.11
$ sudo cp flash /export/apps/FLASH/1.2.11