SOAPdenovo on a unix cluster

[oregon]

I'm new to genomics and trying to assemble a non-model genome- I want to use SOAPdenovo but I can't figure out how to get it running over my hardware options- I have an iMac which has too little RAM, and access to a UNIX cluster with lots of nodes, each with 4G RAM but can you run SOAP over a regular cluster? There doesn't seem to be a UNIX version, just Mac and Linux. Are there commands to tell SOAP the number of processors it is accessing?

From reading this site it seems like people tend to have a dedicated computer with few processors and tons of RAM, but I don't have access to anything like that. Thanks!

[nickloman]

Running SOAPdenovo on Amazon EC2 might be one answer to your problem.

Another Seqanswers user is developing a distributed assembler called RAY which might also be helpful, see http://seqanswers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4301

[yehuimei]

ask for help on soap for mac

i'm new to genomics, i want to do sequence assemble with soap.
I have downloaded the software soap ,and install it in mac,
however, it is without running.
is there somebody could tell me that's why?
thanks