This is Merqury v1.3, compatible and tested with Meryl v1.3.
Download the release source file and extract. No additional compiling or building needed.
Simply add MERQURY as a path variable and we are good to go.
wget https://github.com/marbl/merqury/archive/v1.3.tar.gz
tar -zxvf v1.3.tar.gz
cd merqury-1.3
export MERQURY=$PWD
Add installation dir paths for dependent tools if modules for them are not available: bedtools
, samtools
, and Rscript
to your environment (~/.bash_profile
or ~/.profile
). source it.
In case your computation environment modules aren't compatible, edit $MERQURY/util/util.sh's check_module
to always echo 1.
Release note
- Meryl has much improved in multi-threading and memory management. This will help getting ~3x speed up, especially for the meryl counting and set operations used in Merqury.
- IGV
.tdf
files are no longer supported. Instead, wiggle (.wig
) files are generated. - Using new meryl syntax.
- Splitting fastq files for kmer counting is deprecated.
- Force R to use cairo engine for plotting to avoid font gobbling and weird plotting issues.
- Minor updates in help messages.