BBTools

BBTools is a suite of tools designed for the analysis of DNA and RNA sequence data. The bundle packages version 39.19.

Usage example

The following command can be executed in the terminal to load the bundle:

module load bbtools

A few of the BBTools commands can be run as shown as below:

bbduk.sh
bbmap.sh
bbmerge.sh
reformat.sh
stats.sh
filterbyname.sh

The remaining commands in the BBTools suite can be run using the bbtools_shell.

Performance notes

No performance notes available

Recommended resources

BBTools should be run on a system with at least 64 GB of RAM and 16 threads.

Benchmarks

No benchmarks available.

Community guides and tutorials

• No community guides available.

Official site and documentation

• Site
• Documentation

Licensing information

BBTools is licensed under the GPLv2 license.

Primary citation

Brian Bushnell,Jonathan Rood,Esther Singer. BBMerge – Accurate paired shotgun read merging via overlap, Published: October 26, 2017 doi

External guides and resources

• If you know of a guide/tutorial that you have found useful, please help us share it by contacting the HPC staff at hpc@ufs.ac.za