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Software Crash – Olympia oyster genome assembly with Masurca on Mox

Ah, the joys of bioinformatics. I just received an email from Mox indicating that the Masurca assembly I started 11 DAYS AGO (!!) crashed.

I’m probably not going to put much effort in to trying to figure out what went wrong, but here’s some log file snippets for reference. I’ll probably drop a line to the developers and see if they have any easy ways to address whatever caused the problems, but that’s about as much effort as I’m willing to put into troubleshooting this assembly.

Additionally, since this crashed, I’m not going to bother moving any of the files off of Mox. That means they will be deleted automatically by the system around Nov. 9th, 2017.

slurm-94620.out (tail)

compute_psa 6601202 2632582819
Refining alignments
Joining
Generating assembly input files
Coverage of the mega-reads less than 5 -- using the super reads as well
Coverage threshold for splitting unitigs is 138 minimum ovl 63
Running assembly
/gscratch/srlab/programs/MaSuRCA-3.2.3/bin/deduplicate_unitigs.sh: line 85: 24330 Aborted                 (core dumped) overlapStoreBuild -o $ASM_DIR/$ASM_PREFIX.ovlStore -M 65536 -g $ASM_DIR/$ASM_PREFIX.gkpStore $ASM_DIR/overlaps_dedup.ovb.gz > $ASM_DIR/overlapStore.rebuild.err 2>&1
Assembly stopped or failed, see CA.mr.41.15.17.0.029.log
[Mon Oct 30 23:19:37 PDT 2017] Assembly stopped or failed, see CA.mr.41.15.17.0.029.log

CA.mr.41.15.17.0.029.log (tail)

number of threads     = 28 (OpenMP default)

ERROR:  overlapStore '/gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20171019_masurca_oly_assembly/CA.mr.41.15.17.0.029/genome.ovlStore' is incomplete; previous overlapStoreBuild probably crashed.

----------------------------------------
Failure message:

failed to unitig

overlapStore.rebuild.err

Scanning overlap files to count the number of overlaps.
Found 277.972 million overlaps.
Memory limit 65536MB supplied.  Ill put 3246167525 IIDs (3435.97 million overlaps) into each of 1 buckets.
bucketizing CA.mr.41.15.17.0.029/overlaps_dedup.ovb.gz
bucketizing DONE!
overlaps skipped:
               0 OBT - low quality
               0 DUP - non-duplicate overlap
               0 DUP - different library
               0 DUP - dedup not requested
terminate called after throwing an instance of std::bad_alloc
  what():  std::bad_alloc

Failed with Aborted

Backtrace (mangled):

overlapStoreBuild[0x40523a]
/usr/lib64/libpthread.so.0(+0xf100)[0x2af83b3c0100]
/usr/lib64/libc.so.6(gsignal+0x37)[0x2af83c0395f7]
/usr/lib64/libc.so.6(abort+0x148)[0x2af83c03ace8]
/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6(_ZN9__gnu_cxx27__verbose_terminate_handlerEv+0x165)[0x2af83b62d9d5]
/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6(+0x5e946)[0x2af83b62b946]
/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6(+0x5e973)[0x2af83b62b973]
/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6(+0x5eb93)[0x2af83b62bb93]
/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6(_Znwm+0x7d)[0x2af83b62c12d]
/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6(_Znam+0x9)[0x2af83b62c1c9]
overlapStoreBuild[0x402e10]
/usr/lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5)[0x2af83c025b15]
overlapStoreBuild[0x403089]

Backtrace (demangled):

[0] overlapStoreBuild() [0x40523a]
[1] /usr/lib64/libpthread.so.0::(null) + 0xf100  [0x2af83b3c0100]
[2] /usr/lib64/libc.so.6::(null) + 0x37  [0x2af83c0395f7]
[3] /usr/lib64/libc.so.6::(null) + 0x148  [0x2af83c03ace8]
[4] /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6::__gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler() + 0x165  [0x2af83b62d9d5]
[5] /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6::(null) + 0x5e946  [0x2af83b62b946]
[6] /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6::(null) + 0x5e973  [0x2af83b62b973]
[7] /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6::(null) + 0x5eb93  [0x2af83b62bb93]
[8] /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6::operator new(unsigned long) + 0x7d  [0x2af83b62c12d]
[9] /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6::operator new[](unsigned long) + 0x9  [0x2af83b62c1c9]
[10] overlapStoreBuild() [0x402e10]
[11] /usr/lib64/libc.so.6::(null) + 0xf5  [0x2af83c025b15]
[12] overlapStoreBuild() [0x403089]

GDB:

Genome Assembly – Olympia oyster Illumina & PacBio reads using MaSuRCA

UPDATE 20171031 – This crashed. No plans to troubleshoot.

Ran this on Mox (hyak) node.

Create single PacBio FASTA file:

list of PacBio files:

m130619_081336_42134_c100525122550000001823081109281326_s1_p0.fastq m170315_001112_42134_c101169372550000001823273008151717_s1_p0_filtered_subreads.fastq.gz
m170211_224036_42134_c101073082550000001823236402101737_s1_X0_filtered_subreads.fastq.gz m170315_063041_42134_c101169382550000001823273008151700_s1_p0_filtered_subreads.fastq.gz
m170301_100013_42134_c101174162550000001823269408211761_s1_p0_filtered_subreads.fastq.gz m170315_124938_42134_c101169382550000001823273008151701_s1_p0_filtered_subreads.fastq.gz
m170301_162825_42134_c101174162550000001823269408211762_s1_p0_filtered_subreads.fastq.gz m170315_190851_42134_c101169382550000001823273008151702_s1_p0_filtered_subreads.fastq.gz
m170301_225711_42134_c101174162550000001823269408211763_s1_p0_filtered_subreads.fastq.gz
m170308_163922_42134_c101174252550000001823269408211742_s1_p0_filtered_subreads.fastq.gz
m170308_230815_42134_c101174252550000001823269408211743_s1_p0_filtered_subreads.fastq.gz

Concatenate GZIPPED files:

$cat *.gz > pacbio_cat.fastq.gz

Convert FASTQ gzip to FASTA:

$zcat pacbio_cat.fastq.gz | awk 'NR%4==1{printf ">%s\n", substr($0,2)}NR%4==2{print}' > oly_pacbio_concatentated.fa

Convert and concatenate single non-gzipped FASTQ file:

$awk 'NR%4==1{printf ">%s\n", substr($0,2)}NR%4==2{print}' m130619_081336_42134_c100525122550000001823081109281326_s1_p0.fastq >> oly_pacbio_concatentated.fa
$cat *.gz > pacbio_cat.fastq.gz

GUNZIP Illumina GZIPPED FASTQ

$for i in *.gz; do gunzip < "$i" > ${i%%.gz}; done

Determine mean read length and standard deviation from Illumina FASTQ files (needed for MaSuRCA config file) (found code below from this Biostars thread:

$for i in *.fq; do echo "$i   "; awk 'BEGIN { t=0.0;sq=0.0; n=0;} ;NR%4==2 {n++;L=length($0);t+=L;sq+=L*L;}END{m=t/n;printf("total %d avg=%f stddev=%f\n",n,m,sq/n-m*m);}' $i; done

Output:

151114_I191_FCH3Y35BCXX_L1_wHAIPI023992-37_1.fq   
total 61253141 avg=150.000000 stddev=0.000000
151114_I191_FCH3Y35BCXX_L1_wHAIPI023992-37_2.fq   
total 61253141 avg=150.000000 stddev=0.000000
151114_I191_FCH3Y35BCXX_L2_wHAMPI023991-66_1.fq   
total 58755925 avg=150.000000 stddev=0.000000
151114_I191_FCH3Y35BCXX_L2_wHAMPI023991-66_2.fq   
total 58755925 avg=150.000000 stddev=0.000000
151118_I137_FCH3KNJBBXX_L5_wHAXPI023905-96_1.fq   
total 43938762 avg=150.000000 stddev=0.000000
151118_I137_FCH3KNJBBXX_L5_wHAXPI023905-96_2.fq   
total 43938762 avg=150.000000 stddev=0.000000
160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L3_WHOSTibkDCABDLAAPEI-62_1.fq   
total 87198584 avg=49.000000 stddev=0.000000
160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L3_WHOSTibkDCABDLAAPEI-62_2.fq   
total 87198584 avg=49.000000 stddev=0.000000
160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L3_WHOSTibkDCACDTAAPEI-75_1.fq   
total 43766527 avg=49.000000 stddev=0.000000
160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L3_WHOSTibkDCACDTAAPEI-75_2.fq   
total 43766527 avg=49.000000 stddev=0.000000
160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L4_WHOSTibkDCABDLAAPEI-62_1.fq   
total 87135961 avg=49.000000 stddev=0.000000
160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L4_WHOSTibkDCABDLAAPEI-62_2.fq   
total 87135961 avg=49.000000 stddev=0.000000
160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L4_WHOSTibkDCACDTAAPEI-75_1.fq   
total 43138844 avg=49.000000 stddev=0.000000
160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L4_WHOSTibkDCACDTAAPEI-75_2.fq   
total 43138844 avg=49.000000 stddev=0.000000
160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L5_WHOSTibkDCAADWAAPEI-74_1.fq   
total 95270180 avg=49.000000 stddev=0.000000
160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L5_WHOSTibkDCAADWAAPEI-74_2.fq   
total 95270180 avg=49.000000 stddev=0.000000
160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L6_WHOSTibkDCAADWAAPEI-74_1.fq   
total 92524416 avg=49.000000 stddev=0.000000
160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L6_WHOSTibkDCAADWAAPEI-74_2.fq   
total 92524416 avg=49.000000 stddev=0.000000

Here’s the config file I’m using:

/gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20171019_masurca_oly_assembly/20171019_masurca_oly_config.txt

# example configuration file

# DATA is specified as type {PE,JUMP,OTHER,PACBIO} and 5 fields:
# 1)two_letter_prefix 2)mean 3)stdev 4)fastq(.gz)_fwd_reads
# 5)fastq(.gz)_rev_reads. The PE reads are always assumed to be
# innies, i.e. --->.<---, and JUMP are assumed to be outties
# <---.--->. If there are any jump libraries that are innies, such as
# longjump, specify them as JUMP and specify NEGATIVE mean. Reverse reads
# are optional for PE libraries and mandatory for JUMP libraries. Any
# OTHER sequence data (454, Sanger, Ion torrent, etc) must be first
# converted into Celera Assembler compatible .frg files (see
# http://wgs-assembler.sourceforge.com)
DATA
PE= pe 49 1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L3_WHOSTibkDCABDLAAPEI-62_1.fq /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L3_WHOSTibkDCABDLAAPEI-62_2.fq
PE= pe 49 1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L3_WHOSTibkDCACDTAAPEI-75_1.fq /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L3_WHOSTibkDCACDTAAPEI-75_2.fq
PE= pe 49 1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L4_WHOSTibkDCABDLAAPEI-62_1.fq /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L4_WHOSTibkDCABDLAAPEI-62_2.fq
PE= pe 49 1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L4_WHOSTibkDCACDTAAPEI-75_1.fq /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L4_WHOSTibkDCACDTAAPEI-75_2.fq
PE= pe 49 1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L5_WHOSTibkDCAADWAAPEI-74_1.fq /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L5_WHOSTibkDCAADWAAPEI-74_2.fq
PE= pe 49 1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L6_WHOSTibkDCAADWAAPEI-74_1.fq /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L6_WHOSTibkDCAADWAAPEI-74_2.fq

JUMP= sh 150 1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/151114_I191_FCH3Y35BCXX_L1_wHAIPI023992-37_1.fq /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/151114_I191_FCH3Y35BCXX_L1_wHAIPI023992-37_2.fq
JUMP= sh 150 1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/151114_I191_FCH3Y35BCXX_L2_wHAMPI023991-66_1.fq /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/151114_I191_FCH3Y35BCXX_L2_wHAMPI023991-66_2.fq
JUMP= sh 150 1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/151118_I137_FCH3KNJBBXX_L5_wHAXPI023905-96_1.fq /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/151118_I137_FCH3KNJBBXX_L5_wHAXPI023905-96_2.fq
#pacbio reads must be in a single fasta file! make sure you provide absolute path
PACBIO=/gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_pacbio/oly_pacbio_concatentated.fa
END

PARAMETERS
#this is k-mer size for deBruijn graph values between 25 and 127 are supported, auto will compute the optimal size based on the read data and GC content
GRAPH_KMER_SIZE = auto
#set this to 1 for all Illumina-only assemblies
#set this to 1 if you have less than 20x long reads (454, Sanger, Pacbio) and less than 50x CLONE coverage by Illumina, Sanger or 454 mate pairs
#otherwise keep at 0
USE_LINKING_MATES = 1
#this parameter is useful if you have too many Illumina jumping library mates. Typically set it to 60 for bacteria and 300 for the other organisms
LIMIT_JUMP_COVERAGE = 300
#these are the additional parameters to Celera Assembler.  do not worry about performance, number or processors or batch sizes -- these are computed automatically.
#set cgwErrorRate=0.25 for bacteria and 0.1<=cgwErrorRate<=0.15 for other organisms.
CA_PARAMETERS =  cgwErrorRate=0.15
#minimum count k-mers used in error correction 1 means all k-mers are used.  one can increase to 2 if Illumina coverage >100
KMER_COUNT_THRESHOLD = 1
#whether to attempt to close gaps in scaffolds with Illumina data
CLOSE_GAPS=1
#auto-detected number of cpus to use
NUM_THREADS = 28
#this is mandatory jellyfish hash size -- a safe value is estimated_genome_size*estimated_coverage
JF_SIZE = 200000000
#set this to 1 to use SOAPdenovo contigging/scaffolding module.  Assembly will be worse but will run faster. Useful for very large (>5Gbp) genomes
SOAP_ASSEMBLY=0
END

Execute the masurca script to generate assembly script (on Mox login node):

$cd /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20171019_masurca_oly_assembly
$/gscratch/srlab/programs/MaSuRCA-3.2.3/bin/masurca 20171019_masurca_oly_config.txt

Got this error:

I’ll edit config file to have standard deviations == 1 and try again.

Got another error:

I’ll edit config file to have different two letter prefix assignments…

It worked!

Final version of config:

# example configuration file

# DATA is specified as type {PE,JUMP,OTHER,PACBIO} and 5 fields:
# 1)two_letter_prefix 2)mean 3)stdev 4)fastq(.gz)_fwd_reads
# 5)fastq(.gz)_rev_reads. The PE reads are always assumed to be
# innies, i.e. --->.<---, and JUMP are assumed to be outties
# <---.--->. If there are any jump libraries that are innies, such as
# longjump, specify them as JUMP and specify NEGATIVE mean. Reverse reads
# are optional for PE libraries and mandatory for JUMP libraries. Any
# OTHER sequence data (454, Sanger, Ion torrent, etc) must be first
# converted into Celera Assembler compatible .frg files (see
# http://wgs-assembler.sourceforge.com)
DATA
PE= aa 49 1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L3_WHOSTibkDCABDLAAPEI-62_1.fq /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L3_WHOSTibkDCABDLAAPEI-62_2.fq
PE= ab 49 1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L3_WHOSTibkDCACDTAAPEI-75_1.fq /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L3_WHOSTibkDCACDTAAPEI-75_2.fq
PE= ac 49 1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L4_WHOSTibkDCABDLAAPEI-62_1.fq /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L4_WHOSTibkDCABDLAAPEI-62_2.fq
PE= ad 49 1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L4_WHOSTibkDCACDTAAPEI-75_1.fq /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L4_WHOSTibkDCACDTAAPEI-75_2.fq
PE= ae 49 1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L5_WHOSTibkDCAADWAAPEI-74_1.fq /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L5_WHOSTibkDCAADWAAPEI-74_2.fq
PE= af 49 1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L6_WHOSTibkDCAADWAAPEI-74_1.fq /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/160103_I137_FCH3V5YBBXX_L6_WHOSTibkDCAADWAAPEI-74_2.fq

JUMP= ba 150 1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/151114_I191_FCH3Y35BCXX_L1_wHAIPI023992-37_1.fq /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/151114_I191_FCH3Y35BCXX_L1_wHAIPI023992-37_2.fq
JUMP= bb 150 1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/151114_I191_FCH3Y35BCXX_L2_wHAMPI023991-66_1.fq /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/151114_I191_FCH3Y35BCXX_L2_wHAMPI023991-66_2.fq
JUMP= bc 150 1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/151118_I137_FCH3KNJBBXX_L5_wHAXPI023905-96_1.fq /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_illumina/151118_I137_FCH3KNJBBXX_L5_wHAXPI023905-96_2.fq
#pacbio reads must be in a single fasta file! make sure you provide absolute path
PACBIO=/gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/O_lurida/oly_pacbio/oly_pacbio_concatentated.fa
END

PARAMETERS
#this is k-mer size for deBruijn graph values between 25 and 127 are supported, auto will compute the optimal size based on the read data and GC content
GRAPH_KMER_SIZE = auto
#set this to 1 for all Illumina-only assemblies
#set this to 1 if you have less than 20x long reads (454, Sanger, Pacbio) and less than 50x CLONE coverage by Illumina, Sanger or 454 mate pairs
#otherwise keep at 0
USE_LINKING_MATES = 1
#this parameter is useful if you have too many Illumina jumping library mates. Typically set it to 60 for bacteria and 300 for the other organisms
LIMIT_JUMP_COVERAGE = 300
#these are the additional parameters to Celera Assembler.  do not worry about performance, number or processors or batch sizes -- these are computed automatically.
#set cgwErrorRate=0.25 for bacteria and 0.1<=cgwErrorRate<=0.15 for other organisms.
CA_PARAMETERS =  cgwErrorRate=0.15
#minimum count k-mers used in error correction 1 means all k-mers are used.  one can increase to 2 if Illumina coverage >100
KMER_COUNT_THRESHOLD = 1
#whether to attempt to close gaps in scaffolds with Illumina data
CLOSE_GAPS=1
#auto-detected number of cpus to use
NUM_THREADS = 28
#this is mandatory jellyfish hash size -- a safe value is estimated_genome_size*estimated_coverage
JF_SIZE = 200000000
#set this to 1 to use SOAPdenovo contigging/scaffolding module.  Assembly will be worse but will run faster. Useful for very large (>5Gbp) genomes
SOAP_ASSEMBLY=0
END

Submitted the job to Mox using the following command:

sbatch -p srlab -A srlab 20171019_masurca_oly_assembly.sh

Here’s the sbatch script used for the job:

#!/bin/bash
## Job Name
#SBATCH --job-name=20171019_masurca_oly
## Allocation Definition
#SBATCH --account=srlab
#SBATCH --partition=srlab
## Resources
## Nodes (We only get 1, so this is fixed)
#SBATCH --nodes=1
## Walltime (days-hours:minutes:seconds format)
#SBATCH --time=30-00:00:00
## Memory per node
#SBATCH --mem=500G
##turn on e-mail notification
#SBATCH --mail-type=ALL
#SBATCH --mail-user=
## Specify the working directory for this job
#SBATCH --workdir=/gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20171019_masurca_oly_assembly
/gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20171019_masurca_oly_assembly/assemble.sh

Software Installation – MaSuRCA v3.2.3 Assembler on Mox (Hyak)

Saw this tweet this morning and thought this would be good to try out for our Olympia oyster genome assemblies, as it will handle “hybrid” assemblies (i.e. short-reads and long reads):

Additionally, I was excited by the “…super easy to use.” part in the description. As it turns out, that part of the Tweet is totally untrue. Here are some of the things that make it difficult to use:

  • No pre-install readme file. Without readme file there are no instructions/info on:
    • Necessary dependencies
    • Install command(s)
  • Initial install attempt failed with error message. Message suggests trying:
    • BOOST_ROOT=install ./install.sh
  • No post-install readme file. How do I even get started without any documentation??!!

I managed to track down the guide for this, but didn’t get it via searching the internet. I noticed that the link for the software in the original Tweet had a parent directory, so I navigated there and spotted this:

Quick start guide (PDF): ftp://ftp.genome.umd.edu/pub/MaSuRCA/MaSuRCA_QuickStartGuide.pdf

Although not a big deal, this quick start guide is for the previous version (v.3.2.2).

So, is this where we get to the “super easy to use” part? Uh, no. Check it out:

  1. Modify a config file (luckily, a template is created during install)
    • Illumina paired-end (PE) reads: Aribtrary two letter prefix, mean read length, and read length standard deviation need to be supplied (!!!)
    • Illumina mate-paired (MP) reads: Called “JUMP” in config file and needs the same type of info supplied as PE reads.
    • PacBio reads: Need to be in a single FASTA file (ugh)!
    • A bunch of other stuff that I can probably leave alone.
  2. Run the masurca script (located here: MaSuRCA-3.2.3/bin/masurca). This will generate a new script (called assemble.sh).

  3. Run the assemble.sh script that was created in the previous step.

Although not specifically related to the MaSuRCA install, I did encounter problems trying to install this on our Mox (hyak) computing node.

Build node fail (ironically, this is the specific type of node that’s supposed to be used for compiling software):

OK, so I decided to try compiling it using the login node (which is not what the login node is supposed to be used for):

Login node fail:

I really didn’t want to have to put together an SBATCH script just to compile this software (which compiled without issue, except for that initial BOOST error thingy, on my local Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system), so I just tried running an interactive node and it worked!

Now, on to trying to actually run this thing…