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HOWTO: Create and Manage Python Environments

While our Python installations come with many popular packages installed, you may come upon a case in which you need an additional package that is not installed. If the specific package you are looking for is available from anaconda.org (formerly binstar.org), you can easily install it and required dependencies by using the conda package manager.

Procedure

The following steps are an example of how to set up a Python environment and install packages to a local directory using conda. We use the name  local for the environment, but you may use any other name.

HOWTO: Install Python packages from source

HOWTO: Locally Installing Software

Sometimes the best way to get access to a piece of software on the HPC systems is to install it yourself as a "local install". This document will walk you through the OSC-recommended procedure for maintaining local installs in your home directory or project space. The majority of this document describes the process of "manually" building and installing your software. We also show a partially automated approach through the use of a bash script in the Install Script section near the end.

STAR

STAR: Spliced Transcripts Alignment to a Reference.

Availability and Restrictions

Versions

The following versions of STAR are available on OSC clusters:

SnpEff

SnpEff is a variant annotation and effect prediction tool. It annotates and predicts the effects of variants on genes (such as amino acid changes).

Availability and Restrictions

Versions

The following versions of SnpEff are available on OSC clusters:

SRA Toolkit

The Sequence Read Archive (SRA Toolkit) stores raw sequence data from "next-generation" sequencing technologies including 454, IonTorrent, Illumina, SOLiD, Helicos and Complete Genomics. In addition to raw sequence data, SRA now stores alignment information in the form of read placements on a reference sequence. Use SRA Toolkit tools to directly operate on SRA runs.

Availability and Restrictions

The following versions of SRA Toolkit are available on OSC clusters:

Ncview

Ncview is a visual browser for netCDF format files. Typically you would use ncview to get a quick and easy, push-button look at your netCDF files. You can view simple movies of the data, view along various dimensions, take a look at the actual data values, change color maps, invert the data, etc.

Availability and Restrictions

Versions

The following versions of Ncview are available on OSC clusters:

Subread

The Subread package comprises a suite of software programs for processing next-gen sequencing read data like Subread, Subjunc, featureCounts, and exactSNP.

Availability and Restrictions

Versions

The following versions of Subread are available on OSC clusters:

VCFtools

VCFtools is a program package designed for working with VCF files, such as those generated by the 1000 Genomes Project. The aim of VCFtools is to provide easily accessible methods for working with complex genetic variation data in the form of VCF files.

Availability and Restrictions

The following versions of VCFtools are available on OSC clusters:

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