STACKS installation (Rose)

Installing stacks on Ubuntu Natty Narwhal or Oneiric Ocelot

STACKS is a piece of software produced by Julian Catchen in the Cresko lab. It’s designed to identify loci and alleles from RAD (or GBS) reads either de novo or after alignment to a reference. It consists of several modules that can be run separately, but to completely install it as a pipeline, it relies on a web server, unfortunately. Many of the required instructions are given in the README file, but because nobody in our lab is an expert on this, we had to fiddle around to get the program running on our Ubuntu machines.

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