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Software: Guppy

Description

Guppy is a data processing toolkit that contains the Oxford Nanopore Technologies? basecalling algorithms, and several bioinformatic post-processing features.

Available Versions

Available Versions
Unspecified: 6.0.1 6.5.7

Docker hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/genomicpariscentre/guppy and its home page: https://community.nanoporetech.com.

Commands

  • guppy_aligner
  • guppy_barcoder
  • guppy_basecall_server
  • guppy_basecaller
  • guppy_basecaller_duplex
  • guppy_basecaller_supervisor
  • guppy_basecall_client

Module

You can load the modules by:

module load biocontainers
module load guppy

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 Guppy on our clusters:

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH -A myallocation     # Allocation name 
#SBATCH -t 1:00:00
#SBATCH -N 1
#SBATCH -n 12
#SBATCH --job-name=guppy
#SBATCH --mail-type=FAIL,BEGIN,END
#SBATCH --error=%x-%J-%u.err
#SBATCH --output=%x-%J-%u.out

module --force purge
ml biocontainers guppy

guppy_basecaller --compress_fastq -i data/fast5_tiny/ \
    -s basecall_tiny/ --cpu_threads_per_caller 12 \
    --num_callers 1 -c dna_r9.4.1_450bps_hac.cfg