# oases ## Summary + **Module Name:** oases + **Support Level:** Secondary Support + **Software Access Level:** Open Access + **Home Page:** [https://www.ebi.ac.uk/~zerbino/oases/](https://www.ebi.ac.uk/~zerbino/oases/) ## Software Description Oases is a de novo transcriptome assembler designed to produce transcripts from short read sequencing technologies, such as Illumina, SOLiD, or 454 in the absence of any genomic assembly. It was developed by Marcel Schulz (MPI for Molecular Genomics) and Daniel Zerbino (previously at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), now at UC Santa Cruz). ## General Linux To load this module for use in a Linux environment, you can run the command: module load oases Depending on where you are working, there may be more than one version of oases available. To see which modules are available for loading you can run: module avail oases