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: git-64826f45
• Added: September, 2017
• Link: https://github.com/dstreett/FLASH2

Show all available versions of flash2:

$ module avail flash2

Load flash into your environment:

$ module load flash2/git-64826f45

Get quick help:

$ flash2 --help

Notes from the system admin during installation.

$ cd /tmp
$ git clone https://github.com/dstreett/FLASH2.git
$ scl enable devtoolset-4 bash
$ make
$ sudo mkdir -p /export/apps/flash2/git-64826f45/bin
$ sudo cp flash2 /export/apps/flash2/git-64826f45/bin