AUGUSTUS

Augustus predicts genes in eukaryotic genomic sequences.  It is provided by Mario Stanke of the Bioinformatics Group of the Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Greifswald.

Documentation

• Augustus web site
• GitHub source
• If you use Augustus in your research, please cite:
  Mario Stanke, Mark Diekhans, Robert Baertsch, David Haussler (2008). Using native and syntenically mapped cDNA alignments to improve de novo gene finding. Bioinformatics, 24(5), pages 637–644, doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn013

Usage

AUGUSTUS datasets are installed on Bridges-2 at /ocean/datasets/community/genomics/AUGUSTUS.

To see what versions of AUGUSTUS are available, and which is the default if there is more than one, type:

module spider augustus

To see what other modules are needed, what commands are available and how to get additional help type (note that the module help command is case-sensitive):

module help AUGUSTUS

To use Augustus, include a command like this in your batch script or interactive session to load the augustus module (note that the module load command is case-sensitive):

module load AUGUSTUS