Requirements
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BeeDeeM is mostly a Java software, so it is available for Linux, MacOS X and Windows operating systems.
However, since release 4.5, BeeDeeM task engine relies on additional bash shell scripts, making the software capable of running only on Unix-based operating systems (Linux and macOS). Windows users are now invited to run BeeDeeM from the .
Finally, BeeDeeM cluster task engine, enabling the software to distribute jobs on computing nodes, is only available on OS running a job scheduler (e.g. SGE, PBS or Slurm).
Software dependency of BeeDeeM is as follows, depending on the installation mode:
for legacy installation and use: an , version 1.8 or higher
for other types of installation: either Docker, Singularity or Anaconda has to be installed on your host system.
Being a bioinformatics databanks manager software, BeeDeeM mostly requires a potentialy huge amont of disk storage; of course, it fully depends on your needs. Generally, the disk space required must be at least twice the size of the databases to be generated. In effect, when BeeDeeM installs a new version of a database, its already installed copy remains available to the users.
BeeDeeM requires at least 4 CPUs, 4 Gb RAM and from half an hour (PDB) up to 48 hours (TrEMBL) to install a databank. Running time depends on network speed, too.
Now, if your bank descriptors (the configuration files telling BeeDeeM how to install banks; see ) use external scripts to achieve additional post-processings, higher ressources may be required. As an example, installing TrEMBL with BLAST V4 and V5 bank formats, Diamond and Bowtie2 indexes require up to 32 Go RAM (using 4 CPUs).