mothur offers the ability to go from raw sequences to the generation of visualization tools to describe α and β diversity.

• Version: 1.36
• Updated: December, 2015
• Added: October, 2011
• Link: http://www.mothur.org/

See versions of mothur which are available:

$ module avail mothur

Load and run mothur:

$ module load mothur/1.39.1
$ mothur

Notes from the sysadmin during installation:

- install mothur/1.39.1
$ cd /tmp
$ wget -qO- https://github.com/mothur/mothur/archive/v1.39.1.tar.gz | tar xvz
$ cd mothur-1.39.1/
$ sudo mkdir -p /export/apps/mothur/1.39.1/
$ sudo chown -R joguya:joguya /export/apps/mothur/1.39.1/
$ scl enable devtoolset-3 bash
$ sed -i 's#^BOOST_LIBRARY_DIR=.*$#BOOST_LIBRARY_DIR=/export/apps/boost/1.50.0/lib#g;s#^BOOST_INCLUDE_DIR=.*$#BOOST_INCLUDE_DIR=/export/apps/boost/1.50.0/include#g' Makefile
$ make -j4
$ sudo chown -R root:root /export/apps/mothur/1.39.1/