Requirements
LSC aims to fully integrate into a variety of analysis pipelines. If any of the
following requirements conflict with your lab's set up, please
contact us.
System Requirements
- Linux or Mac OSX operating system
- Python 2.6, numpy and scipy are required
- 16GB RAM recommended (8GB minimum for 5G bp short reads)
- 30GB free hard drive space (Less is probably ok, but just to be safe)
Read Format
- Single-end reads supported
- Length of short reads should be greater or equal to 50bp
- There is no requirement that reads must be the same length.
Upstream
- Input to LSC are sequencer reads in FASTA or FASTQ format.
- Short read mappers supported:
- Bowtie2 (default), BWA, RazerS3 and Novoalign
LSC 1.alpha