GATK 4 can be installed through Conda with:
$ conda install -c bioconda gatk4
GATK 3 cannot be installed this easily due to licensing restrictions. Instead, you must download a licensed copy of GATK from https://software.broadinstitute.org/gatk/download/archive, for example:
[fe-open-01]$ conda activate myproject
(myproject) [fe-open-01]$ conda install -c bioconda gatk
(myproject) [fe-open-01]$ wget https://storage.googleapis.com/gatk-software/package-archive/gatk/GenomeAnalysisTK-3.8-1-0-gf15c1c3ef.tar.bz2
(myproject) [fe-open-01]$ gatk3-register GenomeAnalysisTK-3.8-1-0-gf15c1c3ef.tar.bz2
You can now call GATK with the gatk3 command:
(myproject) [fe-open-01]$ gatk3 --help
Matlab can be installed easily in user-space, but you must bring your own license.
First, download your desired version for Linux and put it in your home folder.
Unzip the file in a new folder, e.g.:
$ unzip matlab_R2023a_glnxa64.zip -d matlab_R2023_glnxa64
Go to the folder and execute the install script. This will make a Matlab window pop up.
$ ./install -agreeToLicense yes -destinationFolder /home/<username>/matlab/glnxa64 -outputFile matlab-install.log
Specify the installation folder as /home/<username>/matlab/glnxa64.
You then need to activate your license.
Go to folder /home/<username>/matlab/glnxa64/bin and execute the activation file:
$ ./activate_matlab.sh
Activating the license requires a graphical environment.
Matlab is now installed. To use it in a batch script, you must ensure that the matlab executable is in your $PATH. You can do this in your batch script/workflow file or put it in your .bashrc:
export PATH=/home/<username>/matlab/glnxa64/bin/:$PATH
You can then run a Matlab script like this:
$ matlab -nodisplay -nosplash -r "<filename>; exit;"
where <filename> is the name of your script, without the .m extension.
Install the jupyter package in your environment.
One way to run a Jupyter Notebook on the cluster is to setup an SSH tunnel to the Jupyter instance.
Start an interactive job. Login to the cluster and start an interactive job where the notebook will run.
[local ~]$ ssh <user>@login.genome.au.dk
[me@genomedk ~]$ srun --pty bash
srun: job 3597082 queued and waiting for resources
srun: job 3597082 has been allocated resources
[me@node ~]$
Setup SSH tunnel. Back on your local computer open a second terminal to setup the port-forwarding from the computing node to your computer.
[local ~]$ ssh -L<UID>:<compute node>:<UID> <user>@login.genome.au.dk
You will need to replace <UID> with your user ID on the cluster, <compute node> with the name of the compute node you have your job on, and <user> with your username on the cluster. You can easily get those values by running following commands on your compute node inside the interactive job you started in the previous step.
[me@node ~]$ echo $UID
1234
[me@node ~]$ hostname -s
node
[me@node ~]$ echo $USER
me
Resulting in a command that would look like this:
[local ~]$ ssh -L1234:node:1234 me@login.genome.au.dk
Start the notebook. Back on the computing node start a Jupyter notebook. For this you may have to first unset the environmental variable XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (this could also be included in ~/.bashrc).
[me@node ~]$ unset XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
[me@node ~]$ conda activate <jupyter-env>
[me@node ~]$ jupyter-notebook --no-browser --port=$UID --ip=0.0.0.0
Run the notebook. Back on your local computer start a web browser and paste the URL from above. But replace the part in parenthesis with localhost to get:
http://localhost:<UID>/?token=....
Cleanup. When finished, remember to log out from both sessions.
We recommend using the GenomeDK Desktop to obtain a graphical remote desktop on GenomeDK. Click “Start a new desktop” and choose an instance that fits the resources you need, as well as a project folder to associate the usage with.
When your desktop starts, you can now install Rstudio by opening the “Terminal” application and running:
[cn-1001]$ conda install -n my-project rstudio-desktop
[cn-1001]$ conda activate my-project
(my-project) [cn-1001]$ rstudio
If you already installed RStudio, you can skip the installation step.
TeXLive is available on GenomeDK in the form of TinyTeX, which is a stripped down version of TeXLive. See TinyTex for more details.
The Conda provided package is for CLI or script usage, the R integration has not been tested and should probably be done using the guide described on the TinyTeX home page.
To install TinyTeX with Conda in a new environment:
[fe-open-01]$ conda create <name of project> -c genomedk tinytex
or if you have an existing environment where you want TinyTeX installed:
[fe-open-01]$ conda activate <existing project>
[fe-open-01]$ conda install -c genomedk tinytex
Compiling documents is done using the normal TexLive commands, i.e.:
[fe-open-01]$ pdflatex test.tex
To install LaTeX packages from CTAN:
[fe-open-01]$ tlmgr install <package>
Search for packages using tlmgr:
[fe-open-01]$ tlmgr search <package>