# cd-hit

## Summary

+ **Module Name:** cd-hit
+ **Support Level:** Secondary Support
+ **Software Access Level:** Open Access
+ **Home Page:** [http://weizhongli-lab.org/cd-hit/](http://weizhongli-lab.org/cd-hit/)

## Software Description

CD-HIT is a program for clustering large protein database at high
sequence identity threshold. The program removes redundant sequences and
generate a database of only the representatives. It can be applied in
protein family classification, domain analysis, organizing large protein
databases, improving performance of database search, and much more.
## General Linux

To load this module for use in a Linux environment, you can run the command:

	module load cd-hit

Depending on where you are working, there may be more than one version of cd-hit available.
To see which modules are available for loading you can run:

	module avail cd-hit