System requirements
- Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008
- Mac OS X 10.6 or later. However, Mac OS X 10.5.8 is supported on 64-bit Intel systems.
- Linux: Red Hat 5 or later. SUSE 10 or later.
- 1024 x 768 display recommended
- Intel or AMD CPU required
- Memory: The numbers below give minimum and recommended amounts for systems running mapping and analysis tasks. The requirements suggested are based on the genome size. Systems with less memory than specified below will benefit from installing the legacy read mapper plug-in (see http://www.clcbio.com/plugins). This is slower than the standard mapper but adjusts to the amount of memory available.
- E. coli K12 ( 4.6 megabases)
- Minimum: 2Gb RAM
- Recommended: 4Gb RAM
- C. elegans ( 100 megabases) and Arabidopsis thaliana ( 120 megabases)
- Minimum: 4Gb RAM
- Recommended: 8Gb RAM
- Zebrafish ( 1.5 gigabases)
- Minimum: 8Gb RAM
- Recommended: 16Gb RAM
- Human ( 3.2 gigabases) and Mouse ( 2.7 gigabases)
- Minimum: 24Gb RAM
- Recommended: 48Gb RAM
- E. coli K12 ( 4.6 megabases)
- Special requirements for de novo assembly. De novo assembly may need more memory than stated above - this depends both on the number of reads and the complexity and size of the genome. See http://www.clcbio.com/white-paper for examples of the memory usage of various data sets.
- 64 bit computer and operating system required to use more than 2GB RAM
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