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GATK

GATK is a software module available on Comet.

GATK overview

To access GATK on Comet, run module load GATK. This will load the default version of GATK.

An overview of the module information is shown below (module -r spider ^GATK$):

GATK: GATK/4.6.0.0-GCCcore-13.2.0-Java-17
    Description:
      The Genome Analysis Toolkit or GATK is a software package developed at the Broad Institute to analyse next-generation resequencing
      data. The toolkit offers a wide variety of tools, with a primary focus on variant discovery and genotyping as well as strong
      emphasis on data quality assurance. Its robust architecture, powerful processing engine and high-performance computing features
      make it capable of taking on projects of any size.

    This module can be loaded directly: module load GATK/4.6.0.0-GCCcore-13.2.0-Java-17

    Help:
      
      Description
      ===========
      The Genome Analysis Toolkit or GATK is a software package developed at the Broad Institute
       to analyse next-generation resequencing data. The toolkit offers a wide variety of tools,
       with a primary focus on variant discovery and genotyping as well as strong emphasis on
       data quality assurance. Its robust architecture, powerful processing engine and
       high-performance computing features make it capable of taking on projects of any size.
      
      More information
      ================
       - Homepage: https://www.broadinstitute.org/gatk/

If there are multiple versions of GATK listed, then you can load a specific version as follows:

$ module load GATK/version_string

You can find the most up to date information whilst logged on to Comet by running module -r spider ^GATK$.


GATK Help

The module GATK has the following embedded help text (module help GATK):

Description
===========
The Genome Analysis Toolkit or GATK is a software package developed at the Broad Institute
 to analyse next-generation resequencing data. The toolkit offers a wide variety of tools,
 with a primary focus on variant discovery and genotyping as well as strong emphasis on
 data quality assurance. Its robust architecture, powerful processing engine and
 high-performance computing features make it capable of taking on projects of any size.

More information
================
 - Homepage: https://www.broadinstitute.org/gatk/


GATK Dependencies

The default version of the module GATK has the following dependencies:


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