USEARCH

General information

USEARCH is a unique sequence analysis tool that offers search and clustering algorithms that are often orders of magnitude faster than BLAST. We have the free 32 bits version that can not be distributed to third parties and has a 4 GB of RAM limitation.

How to use

To use USEARCH execute

/software/bin/usearch

for example

/software/bin/usearch -cluster_otus data.fa -otus otus.fa -uparseout out.up -relabel OTU_ -sizein -sizeout

USEARCH is only available in the xeon20 type nodes.

QIIME

USEARCH can be use under [intlink id=”7758″ type=”post”]QIIME[/intlink].

More information

USEARCH home page.

[intlink id=”7686″ type=”post”]QIIME[/intlink].