PEAR

What is PEAR

"PEAR is an ultrafast, memory-efficient and highly accurate pair-end read merger. It is fully parallelized and can run with as low as just a few kilobytes of memory. 

PEAR evaluates all possible paired-end read overlaps and without requiring the target fragment size as input. In addition, it implements a statistical test for minimizing false-positive results. Together with a highly optimized implementation, it can merge millions of paired end reads within a couple of minutes on a standard desktop computer." (source).

How to Use PEAR

To enable PEAR, type the below command in the terminal.

$ module load Biosciences/pear/0.9.11/gcc-7.2.0

PEAR's main binary is below, and this will print the usage of PEAR as well:

$ pear

For more on using PEAR, refer to their documentation.