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cactus

Link to section 'Introduction' of 'cactus' Introduction

Cactus is a reference-free whole-genome multiple alignment program.

For more information, please check its website: https://biocontainers.pro/tools/cactus and its home page on Github.

Link to section 'Versions' of 'cactus' Versions

  • 2.0.5
  • 2.2.1
  • 2.2.3-gpu
  • 2.2.3
  • 2.4.0-gpu
  • 2.4.0

Link to section 'Commands' of 'cactus' Commands

  • cactus
  • cactus-align
  • cactus-align-batch
  • cactus-blast
  • cactus-graphmap
  • cactus-graphmap-join
  • cactus-graphmap-split
  • cactus-minigraph
  • cactus-prepare
  • cactus-prepare-toil
  • cactus-preprocess
  • cactus-refmap
  • cactus2hal-stitch.sh
  • cactus2hal.py
  • cactusAPITests
  • cactus_analyseAssembly
  • cactus_barTests
  • cactus_batch_mergeChunks
  • cactus_chain
  • cactus_consolidated
  • cactus_covered_intervals
  • cactus_fasta_fragments.py
  • cactus_fasta_softmask_intervals.py
  • cactus_filterSmallFastaSequences.py
  • cactus_halGeneratorTests
  • cactus_local_alignment.py
  • cactus_makeAlphaNumericHeaders.py
  • cactus_softmask2hardmask

Link to section 'Module' of 'cactus' Module

You can load the modules by:

module load biocontainers
module load cactus

Link to section 'Example job' of 'cactus' Example job

Using #!/bin/sh -l as shebang in the slurm job script will cause the failure of some biocontainer modules. Please use #!/bin/bash instead.

To run Cactus on our clusters:

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH -A myallocation     # Allocation name 
#SBATCH -t 1:00:00
#SBATCH -N 1
#SBATCH -n 1
#SBATCH --job-name=cactus
#SBATCH --mail-type=FAIL,BEGIN,END
#SBATCH --error=%x-%J-%u.err
#SBATCH --output=%x-%J-%u.out

module --force purge
ml biocontainers cactus

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ComparativeGenomicsToolkit/cactus/master/examples/evolverMammals.txt
cactus jobStore evolverMammals.txt evolverMammals.hal
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