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kaiju

Link to section 'Introduction' of 'kaiju' Introduction

Kaiju is a tool for fast taxonomic classification of metagenomic sequencing reads using a protein reference database.

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

Link to section 'Versions' of 'kaiju' Versions

  • 1.8.2

Link to section 'Commands' of 'kaiju' Commands

  • kaiju
  • kaiju-addTaxonNames
  • kaiju-convertMAR.py
  • kaiju-convertNR
  • kaiju-excluded-accessions.txt
  • kaiju-gbk2faa.pl
  • kaiju-makedb
  • kaiju-mergeOutputs
  • kaiju-mkbwt
  • kaiju-mkfmi
  • kaiju-multi
  • kaiju-taxonlistEuk.tsv
  • kaiju2krona
  • kaiju2table
  • kaijup
  • kaijux

Link to section 'Module' of 'kaiju' Module

You can load the modules by:

module load biocontainers
module load kaiju

Link to section 'Example job' of 'kaiju' 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 Kaiju on our clusters:

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH -A myallocation     # Allocation name 
#SBATCH -t 1:00:00
#SBATCH -N 1
#SBATCH -n 24
#SBATCH --job-name=kaiju
#SBATCH --mail-type=FAIL,BEGIN,END
#SBATCH --error=%x-%J-%u.err
#SBATCH --output=%x-%J-%u.out

module --force purge
ml biocontainers kaiju

kaiju -t kaijudb/nodes.dmp \
     -f kaijudb/refseq/kaiju_db_refseq.fmi \
    -i input_1.fastq -j input_2.fastq
     -z 24
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