# quast

## Summary

+ **Module Name:** quast
+ **Support Level:** Primary Support
+ **Software Access Level:** Open Access
+ **Home Page:** [http://sourceforge.net/projects/quast/](http://sourceforge.net/projects/quast/)

## Software Description

QUAST stands for QUality ASsesment Tool. The tool evaluates genome
assemblies by computing various metrics. You can find all project news
at
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/quast](http://sourceforge.net/projects/quast/)
.
## General Linux

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

	module load quast

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

	module avail quast
## Slurm Example


	#!/bin/bash
	#SBATCH --job-name="rfm_RunQUASTTest_job"
	#SBATCH --ntasks=1
	#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=1
	#SBATCH --output=rfm_RunQUASTTest_job.out
	#SBATCH --error=rfm_RunQUASTTest_job.err
	#SBATCH --time=0:10:0
	#SBATCH -p msismall
	module load quast/4.3
	wget https://public.s3.msi.umn.edu/reframe/sw/quast/contigs_1.fasta
	wget https://public.s3.msi.umn.edu/reframe/sw/quast/contigs_2.fasta
	wget https://public.s3.msi.umn.edu/reframe/sw/quast/genes.gff
	wget https://public.s3.msi.umn.edu/reframe/sw/quast/reference.fasta.gz
	quast contigs_1.fasta contigs_2.fasta -R reference.fasta.gz -G genes.gff -o output