MUMmer4

Owned by Abigail Smith (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Nov 02, 2022 by Simon Alexander
1 min read
1 Overview | 2 Using | 2.1 Multicore:

Overview

MUMmer is a system for rapidly aligning large DNA sequences to one another, it is very fast and easy to run. The current version, release 4.x, can find all 20-bp maximal exact matches between two bacterial genomes in just a few seconds on a typical desktop or laptop computer. MUMmer handles the 100s or 1000s of contigs from a draft genome with ease and will align them to another set of contigs using the nucmer utility included with the system. The promer utility takes this a step further by generating alignments based upon the six-frame translations of both input sequences.

Using

Use the module name mummer to discover versions available and to load the application.

Multicore:

Some of the mummer4 application commands can run across multiple threads:

Please see the command and/or help for the specific command for further details, for example:

  • Run mummer from the command line to find more details about the --threads / --qthreads option.

  • Run nucmer --help from the command line to find more details about the --threads option.