Fastx_toolkit on Biowulf

FASTA/FASTQ pre-processing programs

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Interactive job
Interactive jobs should be used for debugging, graphics, or applications that cannot be run as batch jobs.

Allocate an interactive session and run the program. Sample session:

[user@biowulf]$ sinteractive
salloc.exe: Pending job allocation 46116226
salloc.exe: job 46116226 queued and waiting for resources
salloc.exe: job 46116226 has been allocated resources
salloc.exe: Granted job allocation 46116226
salloc.exe: Waiting for resource configuration
salloc.exe: Nodes cn3144 are ready for job

[user@cn3144 ~]$ module load fastxtoolkit
[user@cn3144 ~]$ fastq_to_fasta -i in.fastq -o out.fasta
[user@cn3144 ~]$ exit
salloc.exe: Relinquishing job allocation 46116226
[user@biowulf ~]$

Batch job
Most jobs should be run as batch jobs.

Create a batch input file (e.g. fastxtoolkit.sh). For example:

#!/bin/bash
set -e
module load fastxtoolkit
fastq_to_fasta -i in.fastq -o out.fasta

Submit this job using the Slurm sbatch command.

sbatch [--mem=#] fastxtoolkit.sh
Swarm of Jobs
A swarm of jobs is an easy way to submit a set of independent commands requiring identical resources.

Create a swarmfile (e.g. fastxtoolkit.swarm). For example:

cd dir1; fastq_to_fasta -i in.fastq -o out.fasta
cd dir2; fastq_to_fasta -i in.fastq -o out.fasta
cd dir3; fastq_to_fasta -i in.fastq -o out.fasta

Submit this job using the swarm command.

swarm -f fastxtoolkit.swarm [-g #] --module fastxtoolkit
where
-g # Number of Gigabytes of memory required for each process (1 line in the swarm command file)
--module fastxtoolkit Loads the fastxtoolkit module for each subjob in the swarm