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

• Latest version: 1.39.5
• Added: October, 2011
• Updated: March, 2018
• Link: https://www.mothur.org/

See versions of mothur which are available:

$ module avail mothur

Load and run one version of mothur:

$ module load mothur/1.39.5
$ mothur

Notes from the sysadmin during installation:

$ cd /tmp
$ wget https://github.com/mothur/mothur/releases/download/v1.39.5/Mothur.linux_64.zip
$ unzip Mothur.linux_64.zip
$ sudo cp -r mothur /export/apps/mothur/1.39.5