KMC is a disk-based programm for counting k-mers from (possibly gzipped) FASTQ/FASTA files.

• Version: 3.0.0
• Added: November, 2018
• Link: https://github.com/refresh-bio/KMC

See versions of kmc which are available:

$ module avail kmc

Load one version into your environment and run it:

$ module load kmc/3.0.0
$ kmc

Notes from the sysadmin during installation:

$ cd /tmp
$ wget https://github.com/refresh-bio/KMC/releases/download/v3.0.0/KMC3.linux.tar.gz
$ sudo mkdir -p /export/apps/kmc/3.0.0
$ sudo tar xf KMC3.linux.tar.gz -C /export/apps/kmc/3.0.0
$ sudo chown -R root:root /export/apps/kmc