---
author: Sam White
toc-title: Contents
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date: 2018-03-08 16:30:12+00:00
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slug: assembly-geoduck-novaseq-using-sparseassembler-failed
title: Assembly - Geoduck NovaSeq using SparseAssembler (failed)
categories:
  - 2018
  - Geoduck Genome Sequencing
tags:
  - assembly
  - geoduck
  - NovaSeq
  - Panopea generosa
  - SparseAssembler
---

Steven came across a [2012 paper in BMC Bioinformatics ("Exploiting sparseness in _de novo_ genome assembly")(https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2105-13-S6-S1) that utilized an assembly program we hadn't previously encountered: [SparseAssembler](https://sourceforge.net/projects/sparseassembler/)

This software is intended to greatly reduce the required amount of RAM necessary to process very large assembly data sets. [As I previously learned, RAM is a limiting factor for assembly programs](https://robertslab.github.io/sams-notebook/posts/2018/2018-02-19-assembly-geoduck-illumina-novaseq-soapdenovo2-on-mox-fail/), and the install (if you can even call it that) was simply upacking a zip file ([program installations on Mox are not trivial](https://robertslab.github.io/sams-notebook/2018/02/21/novaseq-assembly-the-struggle-is-real-real-annoying/)so this seems like it has promise!

The job was run on our Mox node.

Here's the batch script to initiate the job:

[20180308_soap_novaseq_geoduck_slurm.sh](https://owl.fish.washington.edu/Athaliana/20180308_SparseAssembler_novaseq_geoduck/20180308_soap_novaseq_geoduck_slurm.sh)

[code lang=text]
#!/bin/bash
## Job Name
#SBATCH --job-name=20180308_sparse_assembler_geo_novaseq
## Allocation Definition 
#SBATCH --account=srlab
#SBATCH --partition=srlab
## Resources
## Nodes (We only get 1, so this is fixed)
#SBATCH --nodes=1   
## Walltime (days-hours:minutes:seconds format)
#SBATCH --time=30-00:00:00
## Memory per node
#SBATCH --mem=500G
##turn on e-mail notification
#SBATCH --mail-type=ALL
#SBATCH --mail-user=samwhite@uw.edu
## Specify the working directory for this job
#SBATCH --workdir=/gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180308_SparseAssembler_novaseq_geoduck

/gscratch/srlab/programs/SparseAssembler/SparseAssembler 
LD 0 
NodeCovTh 1 
EdgeCovTh 0 
k 117 
g 15 
PathCovTh 100 
GS 2200000000 
i1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/AD002_S9_L001_R1_001_val_1_val_1.fastq 
i2 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/AD002_S9_L001_R2_001_val_2_val_2.fastq 
i1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/AD002_S9_L002_R1_001_val_1_val_1.fastq 
i2 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/AD002_S9_L002_R2_001_val_2_val_2.fastq 
i1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/NR005_S4_L001_R1_001_val_1_val_1.fastq 
i2 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/NR005_S4_L001_R2_001_val_2_val_2.fastq 
i1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/NR005_S4_L002_R1_001_val_1_val_1.fastq 
i2 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/NR005_S4_L002_R2_001_val_2_val_2.fastq 
i1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/NR006_S3_L001_R1_001_val_1_val_1.fastq 
i2 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/NR006_S3_L001_R2_001_val_2_val_2.fastq 
i1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/NR006_S3_L002_R1_001_val_1_val_1.fastq 
i2 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/NR006_S3_L002_R2_001_val_2_val_2.fastq 
i1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/NR012_S1_L001_R1_001_val_1_val_1.fastq 
i2 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/NR012_S1_L001_R2_001_val_2_val_2.fastq 
i1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/NR012_S1_L002_R1_001_val_1_val_1.fastq 
i2 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/NR012_S1_L002_R2_001_val_2_val_2.fastq 
i1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/NR013_AD013_S2_L001_R1_001_val_1_val_1.fastq 
i2 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/NR013_AD013_S2_L001_R2_001_val_2_val_2.fastq 
i1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/NR013_AD013_S2_L002_R1_001_val_1_val_1.fastq 
i2 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/NR013_AD013_S2_L002_R2_001_val_2_val_2.fastq 
i1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/NR014_AD014_S5_L001_R1_001_val_1_val_1.fastq 
i2 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/NR014_AD014_S5_L001_R2_001_val_2_val_2.fastq 
i1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/NR014_AD014_S5_L002_R1_001_val_1_val_1.fastq 
i2 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/NR014_AD014_S5_L002_R2_001_val_2_val_2.fastq 
i1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/NR015_AD015_S6_L001_R1_001_val_1_val_1.fastq 
i2 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/NR015_AD015_S6_L001_R2_001_val_2_val_2.fastq 
i1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/NR015_AD015_S6_L002_R1_001_val_1_val_1.fastq 
i2 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/NR015_AD015_S6_L002_R2_001_val_2_val_2.fastq 
i1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/NR019_S7_L001_R1_001_val_1_val_1.fastq 
i2 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/NR019_S7_L001_R2_001_val_2_val_2.fastq 
i1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/NR019_S7_L002_R1_001_val_1_val_1.fastq 
i2 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/NR019_S7_L002_R2_001_val_2_val_2.fastq 
i1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/NR021_S8_L001_R1_001_val_1_val_1.fastq 
i2 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/NR021_S8_L001_R2_001_val_2_val_2.fastq 
i1 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/NR021_S8_L002_R1_001_val_1_val_1.fastq 
i2 /gscratch/scrubbed/samwhite/20180129_trimmed_again/NR021_S8_L002_R2_001_val_2_val_2.fastq
[/code]



##### Results



Output folder: [20180308_SparseAssembler_novaseq_geoduck/](https://owl.fish.washington.edu/Athaliana/20180308_SparseAssembler_novaseq_geoduck/)

Well, this failed, but not because of memory issues (which is a good start)!

Instead, it failed because the kmer size was too large??!!

See the slurm output log file:





  * [slurm-142382.out](https://owl.fish.washington.edu/Athaliana/20180308_SparseAssembler_novaseq_geoduck/slurm-142382.out)



[Kmergenie had indicated a kmer size of 117bp.](https://robertslab.github.io/sams-notebook/posts/2018/2018-02-05-novaseq-assembly-trimmed-geoduck-novaseq-with-meraculous/)

Will reduce kmer size and try again. Fingers crossed...
