HISAT2 2016

Introduction

HISAT2 is a fast and sensitive alignment program for mapping next-generation sequencing reads (both DNA and RNA) to a population of human genomes (as well as to a single reference genome). HISAT2 is the successor of HISAT and [TopHat 2016 | TopHat2].

Installed version

The currently installed version is available on environment hpc-env/6.4:

HISAT2/2.1.0-intel-2018a

Using HISAT2

If you want to find out more about HISAT2 on the HPC Cluster, you can use the command

module spider HISAT2

This will show you basic informations e.g. a short description and the currently installed version.

To load the desired version of the module, use the command, e.g.

module load hpc-env 6.4
module load HISAT2

Always remember: this command is case sensitive!

To get familiar with the commands and options available for HISAT2, you can use the help function:

hisat2 --help

Documentation

The program's website can be found here.