A versatile pairwise aligner for genomic and spliced nucleotide sequences.

• Latest version: 2.24
• Added: November, 2018
• Updated: February, 2023
• Link: https://lh3.github.io/minimap2/

See versions that are available:

$ module avail minimap2

Load one version into your environment and run it:

$ module load minimap2/2.24
$ minimap2

Notes from the sysadmin during installation:

$ cd /tmp
$ wget https://github.com/lh3/minimap2/releases/download/v2.24/minimap2-2.24_x64-linux.tar.bz2
$ tar xf minimap2-2.24_x64-linux.tar.bz2 
$ cd minimap2-2.24_x64-linux
$ sudo mkdir -p /export/apps/minimap2/2.24/bin
$ sudo cp README.md LICENSE.txt /export/apps/minimap2/2.24
$ sudo cp paftools.js k8 minimap2 /export/apps/minimap2/2.24/bin