MUMmer
Description
MUMmer is a system for rapidly aligning entire genomes, whether in complete or draft form. For example, MUMmer 3.0 can find all 20-basepair or longer exact matches between a pair of 5-megabase genomes in 13.7 seconds, using 78 MB of memory, on a 2.4 GHz Linux desktop computer. MUMmer can also align incomplete genomes; it can easily handle the 100s or 1000s of contigs from a shotgun sequencing project, and will align them to another set of contigs or a genome using the NUCmer program included with the system. If the species are too divergent for a DNA sequence alignment to detect similarity, then the PROmer program can generate alignments based upon the six-frame translations of both input sequences.
Environment Modules
Run module spider mummer to find out what environment modules are available for this application.
System Variables
- HPC_{{#uppercase:mummer}}_DIR - installation directory
Citation
If you publish research that uses {{{app}}} you have to cite it as follows:
MUMmer4 pre-print:
MUMmer4: A fast and versatile genome alignment system Marçais G, Delcher AL, Phillippy AM, Coston R, Salzberg SL, et al. (2018) MUMmer4: A fast and versatile genome alignment system. PLOS Computational Biology 14(1): e1005944. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005944