Frequently Asked Questions

• Frequently Asked Questions
• Galaxy Install
  • 1. tbl2asn out of date
  • 2. SPAdes Python version 3.6 not supported.
  • 3. Can’t locate Bio/SeqIO.pm
  • 4. Installing conda dependencies in Galaxy versions < v16.01
    • Step 1: Install conda
    • Step 2: Install sistr_cmd
    • Step 3: Write a wrapper around sistr
    • Step 4: Load up sistr wrapper during tool execution
    • Step 5: Test sistr
• IRIDA Web Install
  • 1. MariaDB
    • max key length was too long

Galaxy Install

1. tbl2asn out of date

If you see the following message when running Prokka.

[tbl2asn] This copy of tbl2asn is more than a year old.  Please download the current version.
[15:54:18] Could not run command: tbl2asn -V b -a r10k -l paired-ends -M n -N 1 -y 'Annotated using prokka 1.11 from http://www.vicbioinformatics.com' -Z outdir\/prokka\.err -i outdir\/prokka\.fsa 2> /dev/null

Then the command tbl2asn may need to be updated. This can be done as follows:

1. Download the new tbl2asn binary from ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/toolbox/ncbi_tools/converters/by_program/tbl2asn/.

2. Copy the binary over the previously installed locations in Galaxy. These can be found with the command:

    find galaxy/database/dependencies -iname 'tbl2asn'
   

   Where galaxy/database/dependencies is the location of all the installed Galaxy tool dependencies.

2. SPAdes Python version 3.6 not supported.

If you get a message like the following for SPAdes in Galaxy.

== Error ==  python version 3.6 is not supported!
Supported versions are 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5

Then you may need to set the Python version for the SPAdes instance. If installed via conda, this can be done like:

source activate __spades@3.9.0
conda install python=3.5

Please run conda info --envs to see the exact name of the SPAdes conda environment.

3. Can’t locate Bio/SeqIO.pm

If a message like the following appears for Galaxy tools.

Can't locate Bio/SeqIO.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Bio::SeqIO module) (@INC contains: /path/to/miniconda3/envs/__perl@_uv_/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22.2/x86_64-linux-thread-multi ...

Then you may try uninstalling and re-installing the particular tool in Galaxy while monitoring the Galaxy log file (main.log or paster.log) to verify no error is occuring while installing the tool and all dependencies.

Alternatively, you may attempt to manually install bioperl in the tool environment. Here, one of the paths in @INC is miniconda3/envs/__perl@_uv_, which means you can use this conda environment to install bioperl. This can be done with.

source activate __perl@_uv_
conda install perl-bioperl

4. Installing conda dependencies in Galaxy versions < v16.01

IRIDA uses Galaxy versions >= v16.01 in order to take advantage of conda dependency installation. However, it is still possible to integrate IRIDA with Galaxy versions < v16.01 with a bit of manual work to get the proper dependencies loaded up. This involves loading up the necessary environment variables from a file, galaxy/env.sh, which is sourced before each tool is run. The location of this file defaults to galaxy/env.sh, but can be changed with the environment_setup_file parameter in the Galaxy configuration file galaxy/conf/galaxy.ini.

An example of setting up the sistr_cmd dependency using this method is given below. Please modify these steps for the particular tools in question (by e.g., installing different commands with conda, or adding appropriate binaries to the PATH).

Step 1: Install conda

If conda is not already installed, please download and install https://conda.io/miniconda.html. Make sure to add the appropriate channels for installing software from bioconda:

conda config --add channels conda-forge
conda config --add channels defaults
conda config --add channels r
conda config --add channels bioconda

Step 2: Install sistr_cmd

Install the sistr_cmd dependency to it’s own conda environment:

conda create -y --name sistr_cmd@1.0.2 sistr_cmd=1.0.2

Step 3: Write a wrapper around sistr

Write a wrapper around the sistr command to load up the conda environment. If conda is installed in the directory ~/miniconda3 this should look like the following:

#!/bin/bash

export PATH=~/miniconda3/bin:$PATH
source activate sistr_cmd@1.0.2

sistr $@

Save this file with the name sistr.

Step 4: Load up sistr wrapper during tool execution

Copy sistr to a directory loaded up by the galaxy/env.sh file. For example, if this file contains the following:

export PATH=~/bin:$PATH

Then, copy sistr to ~/bin and make executable. Otherwise, adjust env.sh as necessary to put sistr on the PATH.

cp sistr ~/bin
chmod +x ~/bin/sistr

Step 5: Test sistr

You can test out sistr by running as follows:

./bin/sistr --version

You should see sistr_cmd 1.0.2 as output of the above command.

IRIDA Web Install

1. MariaDB

max key length was too long

MariaDB Ubuntu users may encounter errors when deploying IRIDA due to character set requirements. If the application does not launch and you see the following message in the IRIDA logs:

Caused by: liquibase.exception.DatabaseException: Specified key was too long; max key length is 767 bytes [Failed SQL: CREATE TABLE irida_test.system_role (id BIGINT AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL, description VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL, name VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL, CONSTRAINT PK_SYSTEM_ROLE PRIMARY KEY (id), CONSTRAINT UK_3qbj4kdbey8f8wgabcel8i7io UNIQUE (name))]

you will need to make the following changes to MariaDB configurations files within the /etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d/ folder as described below:

50-mysql-clients.cnf

default-character-set = utf8

50-client.cnf

default-character-set = utf8

50-server.cnf

character-set-server = utf8
collation-server = utf8_general_ci

You will need to drop your databases, restart your mysql service, and then recreate your databases before re-running IRIDA for the changes to take effect.