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salmon

Salmon is a wicked-fast program to produce a highly-accurate, transcript-level quantification estimates from RNA-seq data.

Detailed usage can be found here: https://github.com/COMBINE-lab/salmon

Link to section 'Versions' of 'salmon' Versions

  • 1.5.2
  • 1.6.0
  • 1.7.0
  • 1.8.0
  • 1.9.0

Link to section 'Commands' of 'salmon' Commands

  • salmon index
  • salmon quant
  • salmon alevin
  • salmon swim
  • salmon quantmerge

Link to section 'Module' of 'salmon' Module

You can load the modules by:

module load biocontainers
module load salmon

Link to section 'Example job' of 'salmon' 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 Salmon on our our clusters:

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH -A myallocation     # Allocation name 
#SBATCH -t 10:00:00
#SBATCH -N 1
#SBATCH -n 24
#SBATCH --job-name=salmon
#SBATCH --mail-type=FAIL,BEGIN,END
#SBATCH --error=%x-%J-%u.err
#SBATCH --output=%x-%J-%u.out

module --force purge
ml biocontainers salmon

salmon index -t  Homo_sapiens.GRCh38.cds.all.fa -i salmon_index
salmon quant -i salmon_index -l A -p 24 -1 SRR16956239_1.fastq -2 SRR16956239_2.fastq --validateMappings -o transcripts_quan
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