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Microbiome tools available through the Microbiome Platform

Anyone with an OSC account can access these tools. 

Ohio Supercomputer Center

Detailed instructions for tool usage are on OSC here:

 /fs/ess/community/CoMS_microbiome_tools/README_usage


Briefly, to use these tools, on a terminal session in OSC do:

  $module use /fs/ess/community/CoMS_microbiome_tools/sif-apps_staging/modulefiles

  $module avail

  $module load <tool/version>

This will load a brief description of the tools usage, and a link to its documentation. This also presents an alternative option to running the specific tool via Apptainer.


As responsible users of OSC, please refer to these links for appropriate job submission and resource allocation practices:

Example job scripts are also available at

 /fs/ess/community/CoMS_microbiome_tools/example_job_scripts

 For questions, please reach out to Dean Vik at vik.1@osu.edu