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Iceberg reaches end-of-life on 30th November 2020. If you are running jobs on Iceberg then you need to take urgent action to ensure that your jobs/scripts will run on ShARC or Bessemer. If you have never used ShARC or Bessemer then now is the time to test your scripts. Not all software on Iceberg is available on ShARC/Bessemer.

Velvet¶

Sequence assembler for very short reads.

Interactive Usage¶

After connecting to Iceberg (see Establishing a SSH connection), start an interactive session with the qrshx or qrsh command.

To add the velvet binaries to the system PATH, execute the following command

module load apps/gcc/4.4.7/velvet/1.2.10

This makes two programs available:-

velvetg - de Bruijn graph construction, error removal and repeat resolution
velveth - simple hashing program

Example submission script¶

If the command you want to run is velvetg /fastdata/foo1bar/velvet/assembly_31 -exp_cov auto -cov_cutoff auto, here is an example submission script that requests 60 GB of memory

#!/bin/bash
#$ -l rmem=60G

module load apps/gcc/4.4.7/velvet/1.2.10

velvetg /fastdata/foo1bar/velvet/assembly_31 -exp_cov auto -cov_cutoff auto

Put the above into a text file called submit_velvet.sh and submit it to the queue with the command qsub submit_velvet.sh

Velvet Performance¶

Velvet has got multicore capabilities but these have not been compiled in our version. This is because there is evidence that the performance is better running in serial than in parallel. See http://www.ehu.eus/ehusfera/hpc/2012/06/20/benchmarking-genetic-assemblers-abyss-vs-velvet/ for details.

Installation notes¶

Velvet was compiled with gcc 4.4.7

tar -xvzf ./velvet_1.2.10.tgz
cd velvet_1.2.10
make

mkdir -p /usr/local/packages6/apps/gcc/4.4.7/velvet/1.2.10
mv * /usr/local/packages6/apps/gcc/4.4.7/velvet/1.2.10

Modulefile¶

The module file is on the system at /usr/local/modulefiles/apps/gcc/4.4.7/velvet/1.2.10

Its contents are

#%Module1.0#####################################################################
##
## velvet 1.2.10 module file
##

## Module file logging
source /usr/local/etc/module_logging.tcl
##

proc ModulesHelp { } {
        puts stderr "Makes velvet 1.2.10 available"
}

set VELVET_DIR /usr/local/packages6/apps/gcc/4.4.7/velvet/1.2.10

module-whatis   "Makes velevt 1.2.10 available"

prepend-path PATH $VELVET_DIR