Salmon is a tool for fast transcript quantification from RNA-seq data. It requires a set of target transcripts (either from a reference or de-novo assembly) to quantify.

• Latest Version: 0.9.1
• Added: September, 2016
• Updated: March, 2018
• Link: https://salmon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/salmon.html

See which versions of salmon are available:

$ module avail salmon

Load one version of salmon into your environment and run it:

$ module load salmon/0.9.1
$ salmon

Notes from the sysadmin during installation:

$ cd /tmp
$ wget https://github.com/COMBINE-lab/salmon/releases/download/v0.9.1/Salmon-0.9.1_linux_x86_64.tar.gz
$ tar xf Salmon-0.9.1_linux_x86_64.tar.gz
$ sudo cp -r Salmon-latest_linux_x86_64 /export/apps/salmon/0.9.1