# last

## Summary

+ **Module Name:** last
+ **Support Level:** Secondary Support
+ **Software Access Level:** Open Access
+ **Home Page:** [https://gitlab.com/mcfrith/last](https://gitlab.com/mcfrith/last)

## Software Description

LAST is designed for moderately large data (e.g. genomes, DNA reads,
proteomes). It\'s especially good at:

Finding rearrangements and recombinations: we believe last-split does
that more rigorously than anything else.

Finding DNA-versus-protein related regions, especially protein fossils
(but introns are not considered).

Unusual data, e.g. AT-rich DNA, because we can fit parameters to the
data and calculate significance . Sensitive DNA-DNA search, due to fit
ting , sensitive seeding , and calculating significance . It can also:
indicate the confidence/uncertainty of each column in an alignment, and
use sequence quality data in a rigorous fashion.
## General Linux

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

	module load last

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

	module avail last